Deutsches Architekturmuseum

The German Architecture Museum sits on Frankfurt's Museumsufer, the row of museums lining the south bank of the Main. Opened in 1984, it occupies a nineteenth-century villa within which the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers inserted a striking house-within-a-house structure, a smaller white building rising through the older shell. Its permanent exhibition traces the development of building from primitive huts to the modern metropolis through detailed scale models. Changing shows on architects and cities have made it highly influential.