German Film Museum, Film museum in Frankfurt, Germany

The Deutsches Filmmuseum is a film museum in Frankfurt that spans two exhibition floors and displays a comprehensive collection. The spaces feature vintage projectors, editing equipment, lighting rigs, and other tools used across different eras of film production.

The institution was founded in 1984 out of a desire to document and preserve German film history. Since then it has collected objects from across the film industry and dedicated itself to safeguarding technologies and materials that would otherwise be lost.

The museum continues Frankfurt's Kommunales Kino, founded in 1971 as one of the first municipal cinemas of its kind; it screens film-historically important and experimental films plus retrospectives on directors, actors and countries, with talks and discussions. Silent films were once accompanied live on a 1928 Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ, dismantled and stored since 2013. Guests have included Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Wim Wenders and Isabelle Huppert.

The museum stands on the Museumsufer at Schaumainkai in a listed historic villa; the building was rebuilt from 2009 to 2011 to plans by blocher partners. Inside, a small cinema shows short documentaries as part of the permanent exhibition, and the Municipal Cinema, founded in 1971, screens film-historical and experimental programmes with talks and discussions. The library and archive are open to the public.

The museum's cinema opened in 1971, one of the first municipal film theatres of its kind in Germany. Silent films were once accompanied live on a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ from 1928; since 2013 the instrument has been dismantled and stored, so it can no longer be played.