Musée Alsacien

Strasbourg’s Musée Alsacien (Alsatian Museum) provides a glimpse into daily life in pre-industrial Alsace, a region of eastern France that borders Switzerland and Germany and is now the Bas-Rhin and Haute-Rhin departments. The Museum holds over 50,000 objects that are spread across three 16^th and 17^th century timber-framed residences and displayed in reconstructed interiors. Exhibitions highlight domestic and religious life; toys and recreation; the Alsatian viticultural and cheesemaking traditions; and popular images. The Museum also has a rich collection of artifacts from the Alsatian Jewish community.

_{(Photos courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)}