Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum Frankfurt

This guide to the Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum in Frankfurt starts at a model of the Jerusalem temple, tracing the money changers' stalls where pilgrims once paid an annual tax in Tyrian shekels, the same marketplace the Gospels say Jesus overturned. It then turns to the building's own history as a former church reopened as this museum in 2003, and to the Frankfurter Bibelgesellschaft, founded in 1816 by lawyer and sometime mayor Johann Friedrich von Meyer to sell bibles cheaply across Frankfurt's religious divides. Look for the model's little row of tables just inside the temple's outer courtyard.