Even among the best-known art museums, there are those based in buildings that were originally intended for a completely different purpose: the Louvre was the residence of the French kings, trains ran in the Musée d’Orsay as well as in the Hamburg train station. The Uffizi once served as an office building for ministries and departments. But you don’t have to go that far away. In Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region there are also plenty of buildings that originally served as living space, industrial halls and schools and were only later used for cultural purposes, for example converted into exhibition halls.
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