Information and Services
Instructions for your visit
Hygiene instructions
- Please come to the Senckenberg Natural History Museum only if you feel healthy.
- Medical masks are recommended
- Please follow the cough and sneeze etiquette, wash or disinfect your hands regularly.
If you have any questions that go beyond these, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can contact us by e-mail at: info@senckenberg.de
Opening Hours
Monday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tuesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Shrove Tuesday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m closed.
Good Friday, 24th December, 31st December, 1st January closed.
Opening hours: Aha?! Science Lab
Monday: closed
Tuesday: 1pm – 5pm
Wednesday: 10 am – 6pm
Thursday: 1pm – 5pm
Friday: 10 am – 5pm
Saturday: 10 am – 5pm
Sunday: 10 am – 5pm
Public Holidays: 10 am – 5pm
Handicapped accessiblity
For wheelchair users: About 90 percent of the exhibition is accessible. Only a few exhibition areas are not accessible for wheelchairs: “Edmontosaurus and Pterosaurs”, “Fossils of Messel”, “Human evolution” and the gallery of the exhibition “Fossil marine reptiles and fish”.
For blind or partially sighted visitors: In two small exhibition areas there are exhibits that can be touched and which are equipped with Braille. “Human evolution” provides 11 heads of our prehistoric ancestors and in “Human embryology” you can touch several stages of becoming a human being.
Please note:
No dogs allowed in the museum. Only guide dogs are tolerated.
Wheelchair is available if needed. Please contact any of our staff.
Parking
Please consider, there is no parking site available on the museum ground!
However, you may access the convenient public parking facilities nearby:
Parking garage “Adalbertstrasse”; open Monday to Saturday 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.; closed on Sunday and Public Holidays
Parking garage, “Congresscenter Messe Frankfurt” (Maritim Hotel); Theodor-Heuss- Allee 3-5, open 24h
Parking garage “Messeturm”; Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49; open 24h
Parking garage “WestendGate”; Hamburger Allee 2; open 24h
Due to construction works, there are no marked disabled parking spots at the moment. Please contact us before visiting the museum. We will organize a parking lot for you. Accessible during opening hours only.
By Car
Arriving from the South and East:
Drive across the motorway-junction “Frankfurter Kreuz” till “Westkreuz Frankfurt”, then take the motorway A 648 (towards “Stadtmitte” – B8/44) till Frankfurt Fair (Messe), in the roundabout turn left (towards “Ginnheim / Eschersheim” – B8/40). You will find the museum after 500 metres on the left.
Arriving from the North and West:
Drive across the motorway-junction “Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt” on motorway A66 (direction “F-Miquelalle / Stadtmitte”), turn right before the end of the motorway (towards “Hauptbahnhof / Messe” – B8/40), and follow the course of the street “Zeppelinallee”. You will find the museum after 2 kilometres on the right.
Public Transport
Train: From “Mainstation” with Underground Line U4 – stop at “Bockenheimer Warte” station; from “Westbahnhof” 10 minutes walk, travel information here
Suburban Train: Lines S3, S4, S5 and S6 – stop at “Westbahnhof” station 10 minutes walk
Underground: Lines U6 and U7 – stop at “Bockenheimer Warte” station 3 minutes walk, Line U4 – stop at “Bockenheimer Warte” station 2 minutes walk
Tramway: Line 16 – “Bockenheimer Warte” stop 5 minutes walk
Bus: Line 32 – “Senckenbergmuseum” stop