(ffm) As big as a check card and bright yellow: starting Tuesday, June 2, the City of Frankfurt's Culture and Leisure Ticket, or KUFTI for short, will be available. "Around 80 percent of children and young people in Frankfurt will then no longer pay admission to over 30 museums in the city and the zoo. All they have to do is show their personal KUFTI at the entrance and they will have free admission to all participating houses - for as long and as often as they want," explained Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann.
Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann and Head of the Department of Culture Ina Hartwig presented the new "Culture Key" at a press conference at the Senckenberg Nature Museum on Friday, May 22. The ticket can be applied for online at www.kufti.de from 2 June or together with the Frankfurt Pass at the social advice centres from mid-June. The website also contains all the information about the ticket and the participating establishments.
Mayor Feldmann is pleased about the new offer: "The essence of it is this: Frankfurt children should be able to go to most non-municipal cultural institutions free of charge from now on. In the case of the municipal museums, this step has actually led to 100 percent more visitors among children and young people. Now we are following suit with the culture and leisure ticket at institutions such as the Senckenberg, the Städel or the zoo - and are thus coming a step closer to our goal: Frankfurt as a city for everyone!" The demand for culture is there - that is especially evident now that the zoo and museums are reopening. "This demand among children and young people should not fail because of the price - the ticket is explicitly aimed at all Frankfurt children. It stands for identification with our cultural institutions."
Cultural Affairs Director Hartwig added: "Just in time for the start of the summer holidays, the new KUFTI can be ordered and brings even more children and young people into contact with the diverse cultural offerings of this city. In times like these, it is more important than ever that we invest in the younger generations and do not cut back. This offer is unique in Germany and will have a signal effect. With the KUFTI, we want to and will ensure even more social and cultural participation. One thing is clear: the support of target group-specific offers in the museums is decisive for success, so that the young visitors are picked up. Here we can build on the expertise and the great offers of our houses."
The Culture and Leisure Ticket can be ordered free of charge by Frankfurt children and young people from households with an income of less than 4500 euros net, as well as by day-care centre children and Frankfurt schoolchildren; for all other families, a ticket price of 29 euros per year will be charged. This corresponds to an average annual ticket price for all individual cultural institutions. Admissions are automatically recorded in the houses and the museums are reimbursed in full by the city of Frankfurt for the lost admission fees.
Admission to the city's museums has already been free for young visitors since 2017. And with complete success: since its introduction, the number of visitors has doubled, from 47,400 in 2016 to 95,400 in 2019.
