Museen

The castle (Château de Carrouges) started off in the 14th century as a stronghold during the Hundred Years’ War . It became a lordly residence in the 15th century and in the 16th century a gatehouse tower was added, considered to be the first example of Renaissance architecture in Normandy. It was refortified during the … Weiter » „Carrouges Castle“

Demolished in the XVIII century, this medieval building was discovered in 1963. As it was impossible to rebuild it on the same spot, a museum was set up nearby. The building used to be a monastery from the twelfth century, built north of the Church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, today’s Unesco World heritage spot. The museum exhibits … Weiter » „Monastic Art Museum“

The museum ARTEUM (Artistes Représentatifs des Tendances et Unités Méridionales – Artists Representing Southern French Trends and Unity) has a collection of 100 works, the earliest by painters of Marseille’s Péano and Quai de Rive Neuve, and the contemporary works of plastic artists living in the Provence-Côte d’Azur region.

Founded in 910, Cluny Benedictine Abbey (Abbaye de Cluny) shone over Europe during the Middle Ages, the mother house for over monastries, until the dissolution in 1791. the abbey’s church’s huge vestigates were restored and the eighteenth century buildings are highlighted to mark the recent 1100 anniverary. The Benedictine monks wished to observe closer adherence … Weiter » „Cluny Abbey“

The Museum covers nearly 7,000 years of history, from the prehistoric era to 20th century art. The magnificent medieval cloister the gothic chapel and the old buildings of the Unterlinden convent are the ideal surrounding for the medieval collections of roman and gothic sculptures, tapestries, stainglasses and paintings from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. … Weiter » „Unterlinden Museum“

The museum contributes to the preservation, enrichment, collections of deployment and exhibitions of works by Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1914). The ground floor is devoted to the exhaustive and careful presentation of very numerous models of statues and monuments (terracotta, plaster and gray soil) or the precious studio collection of the sculptor, still intact. The Statue of … Weiter » „Bartholdi Museum“

The Village of Hansi and his Museum(Le Village de Hansi) presents the lifetime of the famous artist Jean-Jacques Waltz, so called „Hansi“, his works and the alsatian cultural heritage