What was The New Frankfurt? Key Questions about the 1920s Urban Planning Program

As the core exhibition and initial launch pad at the Museum Angewandte Kunst during 2025 and 2026, the exhibition will raise the following questions: What exactly was The New Frankfurt? Who were the protagonists? What ideas and influences formed the basis of this modernist design movement? What were its key themes, and how did these effectively transform society? Why does the basis for a relationship between democracy and design lie here?

The exhibition consists of a multimedia room in which significant objects from the time of The New Frankfurt, texts and original quotations, images, films, infographics and photographs come together to tell the story of what The New Frankfurt was and will continue to be in a concise form. The questions formulated in this initial room pave the way for more in-depth exhibitions in other parts of the museum, with partner institutions and in the Rhine-Main region; and ultimately extend into the program of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026, thus providing an updated perspective on The New Frankfurt and other national and international design movements that have always led to changes in societal models.