The MINISCHIRN is a space of creative experience for children from the age of three to primary school age. With this innovative permanent installation pivoted on the topics of color, form, and structure the Schirn offers the institution’s youngest visitors an extraordinary games and learning circuit.

On the one hand, the circuit is strongly frequented by day care center and primary school groups from Frankfurt and the Rhein-Main area; on the other, individual children embark on a voyage of discovery on their own under supervision by the art education department’s didactically trained staff, while their parents visit the Schirn’s current exhibitions with concentration and at ease.

There is no admission fee for these children. With its MINISCHIRN concept, the Schirn Kunsthalle underscores its pioneering role in the art education of children and young visitors and presents itself as a vibrant cultural institution for a diversified public.

Together with Atelier Markgraph, Frankfurter Agentur für Kommunikation im Raum, the Schirn’s art education department has developed a dynamic architectural solution that recalls tree-houses and breaks up the rigid lines of the former Schirn bookshop’s rooms, yet in its clarity reflects the building’s language of forms.