Frankfurt's Museum District (Museumsufer), on the south bank of the River Main, is a first-rate collection of separate museums, many of them of international standing.
Highlights include the Museum of World Cultures (Museum der Weltkulturen), regarded as one of Europe's top ethnological museums. Founded in 1904, its collections include more than 65,000 artifacts from as far afield as Asia, Africa, and North and South America.
Another important museum is the Museum of Ancient Sculpture (Städtische Galerie Liebieghau) in the 19th-century Liebieghaus, home to a large collection of Asian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman sculptures, as well as pieces from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
