Musée historique de Mulhouse
Façade of the Old Town Hall with the main entrance of the museum
Interactive fullscreen map
Established1874 (1874)
LocationHôtel de ville, Place de la Réunion
68100 Mulhouse
Coordinates47°45′0″N 7°20′24″E / 47.75000°N 7.34000°E / 47.75000; 7.34000
Type
AccreditationMuseum of France
DirectorJoël Delaine
Public transit accessMulhouse tramway Line 1, stop République Disabled access
Websitehistorique.musees-mulhouse.fr

The Musée historique de Mulhouse is a municipal history museum and archaeology museum in Mulhouse, France.[1][2]

It is housed since 1969 in Mulhouse's Old Town Hall, a Northern Renaissance building dating mainly from 1552, which is protected as a Monument historique since 1929.[3][4]

The interiors of the Old Town Hall with their intact original decoration are an integral part of the museum.[5] The museum's medieval sculptures are on display in the neighbouring Museum of Fine Arts, such as a Saint George Slaying the Dragon from 1490, originally from Tyrol. That work, as well as many others, is on permanent loan to the municipal collections of Mulhouse by the Société industrielle de Mulhouse (SIM), a learned society established in 1826 by local industrialists such as Dollfus, Koechlin, and Schlumberger which had begun collecting artworks in 1831.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Musée Historique". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Collections". historique.musees-mulhouse.fr. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Ancien hôtel de ville, actuellement Musée historique". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Hôtel de ville". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  5. ↑ Scheurer, Marie-Philippe; Lehni, Roger (1990). Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin. Images du Patrimoine. Illkirch-Graffenstaden: Le Verger Éditeur. pp. 39–46. ISBN 2-908367-18-1.
  6. ↑ "Les collections permanentes du musée". beaux-arts.musees-mulhouse.fr. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Les collections de la SIM". sim.asso.fr. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
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