Holiday on the Museum Embankment in Frankfurt am Main (26/08)

The holiday on the Museumsuferfest – is the culmination of the cultural life of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) – it is one of the largest and most significant cultural holidays and festivals in Europe. The holiday takes place annually on the last full weekend of August for three days.

Museumsufer – is the embankment of the southern bank of the Main River in Frankfurt in the area between the Eiserner Steg and Friedensbrücke bridges. It gets its name from the large number of museums that are located on it, and is the cultural center of the city, as it hosts many cultural and urban events. In general, residents of Frankfurt love to celebrate and have fun, and one of their favorite holidays is – «Holiday on the Museum Embankment», which also attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists to the city every year.

Traditionally, the Holiday presents guests with an extensive cultural program that harmoniously combines music, art, folklore and gastronomy. These days, numerous museums located on the Main embankment offer guests special exhibitions and collection shows, lectures and readings, art projects and colorful presentations, and various entertainment events.

On a section of the eight-kilometer-long embankment along both banks of the Main, many grandiose events take place during festival days – these are theatrical productions and dramatizations, musical performances, concerts of creative groups, performances by musical groups and dance groups and much more. Here you can also enjoy live music, demonstrations of folk crafts, a culinary fair... And all this mass celebration framed by local cuisine and culinary delights from all over the world.

As part of the holiday, you can also attend choral performances, organ concerts in churches in Frankfurt, music festival «Music in the monastery», art of small forms, variety shows and other general musical events.

An indispensable component of the Festival on the Museum Embankment is the sailing regatta (Drachenbootrennen), which is especially popular among spectators and attracts everyone's attention. At the end of the – holiday there is a grandiose fireworks display on the Main.

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