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The involvement of foundations is of key importance for the Städel Museum as a place of education, research and scholarly study. Our foundation partners accompany us in future-oriented exhibition and education projects. Together we can spark enthusiasm for art and culture and give people museum experiences of lasting impact—for the common good!

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Exhibition Projects

The Städel Museum regularly carries out unique special exhibitions that draw international interest and acclaim. As a foundation, you can accompany our numerous exhibition projects and support the Städel’s outstanding curatorial work. Our remarkable collection, complete with its permanent loans and new acquisitions, encompasses 700 years of art. Your support enables us to reconsider these holdings from ever-new perspectives and present them with a view to society’s current topics as well as the interests and concerns of our wide-ranging visitor groups.

Education Projects

The Städel Museum was founded in 1815 as a civic foundation and is still borne by civic dedication today. One of its foremost goals is to be a place of education. With support from foundations like yours, we can carry out long-term educational initiatives in a wide range of museum-education formats for a diverse target group. In guided tours, workshops and further-training programmes, we aim to spark enthusiasm for art in young and old—regardless of educational or social background. Let’s join in promoting equal opportunities and making art accessible to a broad community.

Research Projects

The Städel Museum is recognized worldwide for its research work. Whether in the care and cultivation of archives, provenance research, new acquisitions, publications or major conservation projects—there are lots of ways to support the work of the Städel Museum and thus to reinforce the research we carry out as an educational institution, also in a national and international context.

Digital Projects

The Städel Museum has already long been investing in a successful and diverse digital strategy for communicating the themes of our special exhibitions and the contents of our collection independently of a museum visit. This enables us to reach more people—and spark enthusiasm for art in them. Support from foundations in the production of digital formats such as podcasts or the exhibition-accompanying Digitorials and audio guides plays a major role in these efforts. We seek to work with our foundation partners to develop ideas and innovative approaches to making 700 years of art experienceable at home or on the go, on desktops, tablets and smartphones.

Innovation and Expansion

A museum must continually reinvent itself, bring its holdings up to date and reevaluate its contents. With its collection of artworks spanning 700 years, its target-group-specific museum-education formats, its comprehensive digital strategy and its popular and widely recognized exhibition projects that take ever-new perspectives on the collection background, the Städel stays abreast of the times.

Changes in society and lifeworlds also trigger a need for new concepts and structures in the museum. This includes structural changes such as the expansion of the areas for the collection display and special exhibitions, but also the transition to modern, energy-saving technologies. To the Städel Museum as a private civic foundation, these measures pose a financial challenge we would like to tackle with our long-term partners and sponsors.

We’d be delighted to come to you with our project proposals so that we can link your foundation purposes with our aims and together develop concepts for the future of our cultural institutions.

Sponsors & Partners

We thank all our supporters for their multifaceted dedication.

Foundation Sponsorships

Adolf und Luisa Haeuser-Stiftung
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
Aventis Foundation
BNP Paribas Stiftung
Christa Verhein Stiftung
Commerzbank-Stiftung
Cronstett- und Hynspergische evangelische Stiftung
Dagmar-Westberg-Stiftung
Dr. Hans Feith und Dr. Elisabeth Feith-Stiftung
Dr. Harald Hack Stiftung
Dr. Marschner Stiftung
Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete Stiftung
Dr. Wolfgang und Sigrid Berner Stiftung
EKHN Stiftung
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung
Ernst Max von Grunelius-Stiftung
Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung
Familie Schambach-Stiftung
FAZIT-STIFTUNG
Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung
Fidelity Foundation
Fontana Stiftung
Franz Dieter und Michaela Kaldewei Kulturstiftung
Friede Springer Stiftung
Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung
Georg und Franziska Speyer’sche Hochschulstiftung
Hannelore Krempa Stiftung
Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Stiftung
Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung
Hessische Kulturstiftung
Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain gGmbH
Kulturstiftung der Länder
Linnemann Stiftung
Rudolf-August Oetker-Stiftung
Stiftung Gabriele Busch-Hauck
STIFTUNG GIERSCH
Stiftung Leben mit Krebs
Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main
Wolfgang Ratjen Stiftung

With our contribution, we support the scholarly work […]. We see it as an enduring investment in society.

Eva Claudia Scholtz, Executive Director of the Hessische Kulturstiftung
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