Kettenhofweg 27, Gold museum in Frankfurt, Germany
The Goldkammer Frankfurt was a museum housed at Kettenhofweg 27 in a late-classical residential building from around 1850 with a baroque-style annex, part of a listed ensemble. Its 500 gold artefacts from various cultures and epochs were shown in seven underground chambers modelled on a gold mine. The company has since closed the museum permanently and the rooms have been put to other uses.
The late-classicist house at Kettenhofweg 27 dates from around 1850 and forms part of a listed ensemble. From 1991 to 2014 it housed Villa Kunterbunt, the Allianz insurance company's staff kindergarten. The Goldkammer Frankfurt, financed and run by Degussa Sonne/Mond Goldhandel, opened there on 25 May 2019; the company has since closed it permanently and the rooms have been put to other uses.
The name Goldkammer refers to the storage chambers of mining operations where precious metals were collected. The museum shows how gold was revered across different cultures and used as a sign of wealth and power.
The museum is closed permanently and its rooms have been given over to other uses, so the exhibition can no longer be visited. The building at Kettenhofweg 27, a late-classical house of around 1850 with a baroque-style annex, is part of a listed ensemble. On the Tag des offenen Denkmals of 13 September 2020 the Goldkammer was still shown during a guided tour of the site.
The museum occupied the Kettenhofweg 27 building, a late-classicist house from around 1850 with a baroque-style annex, protected as part of a larger ensemble. From 1991 to 2014 the Allianz insurance company ran its Villa Kunterbunt staff kindergarten there before the conversion. On 13 September 2020 the Goldkammer took part in the Tag des offenen Denkmals with a walk-through and a guided tour.
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