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[email protected] | www.kultur-frankfurt.de | www.museumsufer-frankfurt.de FRANKFURT CULTURAL TRIPS CITY HISTORY CITY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND EMPERORS 4 MUSEUMS As measured by political, economic and cultural occur - I1 Dommuseum (Cathedral Museum) and Dom I3 Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt rences, Frankfurt has been a point of culmination of German Sankt Bartholomäus (Cathedral) (Archaeological Museum) and European history ever since it was first mentioned in The Cathedral Museum is located in the cloister of Frankfurt The Archaeological Museum is located in the restored Carmelite documents in 794 . Cathedral (Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew) and presents objects Church. Archaeological finds from 200,000 years show how people from the cathedral treasury. The display includes the late-Merovin - once lived, fought, believed and celebrated. Palaeolithic hunter- Royal privileges, clergy, merchants and free citizens marked gian grave of a girl accompanied by rich grave goods. An annex gatherers, the first Neolithic farmers in Frankfurt, Celts, Romans and the town history: in 1240, Friedrich II placed Frankfurt trade to the museum, the so-called “Sakristeum”, was opened in 2006 Germanic peoples are presented by means of original finds and vivid depictions. The museum also holds special exhibitions on the fa ir visitors under royal protec tion. In 1356 , in the nearby Haus am Dom. Treasures from the collegiate chur - ches of St. Leonhard’s and Liebfrauen are on display here. Frank - cultures of Old Europe. the Golden Bull designated Frankfurt as furt Cathedral is a late Gothic masterpiece and was founded as a INFO: Karmelitergasse 1 | Phone +49(0) 69 21 36 502 the election site for kings and emperors; collegiate church during the Carolingian Empire.