Frankfurt celebrates annually every last August weekend its museums and its riverine setting with a lively three-day festival. In this unique combination the Museum Riverbank Festival is a popular platform for presenting Frankfurt's cultural institutions and cultural protagonists. With an annual attendance of ca. 2.5 million visitors, the programmes of the museums, stage shows, projects and presentations, the Museum Riverbank Festival is one of the biggest cultural events in Europe. Art, culture and disburdening the mind blend together for three days into a spectacular mammoth festival.

The central theme runs like a "fils rouge" through the eight kilometres of the festival. It stamps the festival's image, gives rise to new encounters and experiences and smoothes cultural barriers. This idea can be sensed in the presentations of the museums and cultural institutions. It is alive on all stages, in all productions and culminates in the annual gigantic musical firework display.