Museums in Alsace

68200 Mulhouse

The Cité du Train, formerly the French Museum of Railway, is a railway museum located in Mulhouse, in the Great East. Founded in 1971, it traces 150 years of railway history in France with an exceptional collection of rolling stock and historical objects.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
68100 Mulhouse

Mulhouse's historic museum, housed in a former 16th century Renaissance Town Hall, traces local history since 1864. Located in Place de la Réunion, it houses Alsatian archaeological and ethnographic collections.

Musée du papier et de l'imprimerie
68170 Rixheim

The Rixheim wallpaper museum, housed in an 18th-century old Teutonic commandory, traces the history of this decorative art since 1797. Located in Alsace, it houses unique collections and a still active manufacture.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
68190 Ensisheim

The Regency Museum in Ensisheim, former 16th century Regency Palace, is a listed historical monument located in the Upper Rhine in the Great East.

Musée du vin d'Alsace
68150 Ribeauville

The Museum of Vine and Viticulture of Ribeauvillé, located in the East, is a space dedicated to local wine history. Located in Ribeauville, it showcases this emblematic regional heritage.

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
67130 Natzwiller

The Struthof concentration camp, located in Natzwiller, Alsace, is the only Nazi camp on French territory (1941-1945). It symbolizes the repression and exploitation of deportees under the German occupation.

Écomusée
68190 Ungersheim

The Écomusée d'Alsace, in Ungersheim (Great East), is the largest open-air museum in France, rebuilding a traditional Alsatian village with 80 historic buildings and 100,000 objects of rural and artisanal heritage from the 15th to the 20th century.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
68100 Mulhouse

The Museum of Fine Arts of Mulhouse, housed in an 18th-century bourgeois villa, houses collections of European paintings from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era, with a strong 19th-century representation and regional artists.