Musée alsacien de Haguenau

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Exterior view of the museum

The Musée alsacien ( Alsatian Museum ) is the folklore museum of the municipality of Hagenau in Alsace (today Région Grand Est , France ). The museum was established in 1972 as a branch of the Musée historique , the space of which had become too small.

The museum is located in a late Gothic building (built 1484–1486, slightly modified and supplemented at the end of the 19th century), which served as a chancellery until 1790 and later, among other things, as a library and city archive. The astronomical clock (diameter: 276 cm) is a copy of the clock made in Ulm in 1904 and was originally intended to be attached to the tower of the Historical Museum; since 1958 it has been on the facade of the former office.
On the ground floor of the Musée alsacien there is a room with the original furnishings of the former chancellery, including a chest from the 14th century with iron straps and an archive cabinet from the 17th century.

The collection of the Musée alsacien is spread over the anteroom, the staircase and the two upper floors of the building and provides a good overview of everyday rural life in northern Alsace in the premodern period (until 1914). The most valuable exhibits in the field of folk art include traditional costumes and furniture, in particular reverse glass pictures and wax figures from the 18th century, decorated stove plates from the 17th and 18th centuries, ceramics from Soufflenheim and works on paper such as the traditional " Göttelbriefe " and "funeral texts ".

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  • View into a hall: traditional costumes

  • View into a hall: parlor

  • A look into a showcase: behind glass pictures and wax statuettes

  • Look into a showcase: "Göttelbriefe" and "Corpse texts"

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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 53 "  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 22"  E