Rohan palace
The Rohan Palace in Strasbourg was built from 1732 to 1742 according to plans by Robert de Cotte, First Architect to the King, for Cardinal Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. Designed on the model of the great Parisian hotels, the Episcopal Palace of Strasbourg is one of the most beautiful architectural achievements of the French 18th century, both for the noble and classical elevation of its facades and for its sumptuous interior decorations. Built, decorated and furnished in the space of ten years, this sumptuous residence, which has remained almost unchanged since its construction, is distinguished by its exceptional unity of style. The city's Fine Arts Museum moved there in 1889, followed by the Archaeological Museum in 1913 and the Decorative Arts Museum in 1924.
2 - 5, Place du Château
67000
STRASBOURG
03 68 98 51 60
www.musees.strasbourg.eu
Visit the Archaelogical Museum in Strasbourg
[3 out of 9 museums of your choice in the City of Strasbourg by Pass] The museum's collections have been housed in the basement of the Palais Rohan since the end of the 19th century. Their variety and broad chronological scope make it one of the most important archaeological museums in France. You will discover the history of Strasbourg and Alsace, from the earliest prehistoric times to the first centuries of the Middle Ages.
The museum's collections invite you to travel back in time through the ancient history of Alsace, from the origins of Prehistory (600,000 years BC) until the dawn of the Middle Ages (800 years AD): Paleolithic mammoth hunters, the first Neolithic farmers, the Bronze and Iron Age necropolises, the daily life of the Gallo-Romans and the richness of the Merovingian civilization in Alsace
Horaires d'ouverture
Open every day except Tuesday
From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm on weekdays
From 10am to 6pm on weekends
Closed on 1 January, Good Friday, 1 May, 1 and 11 November and 25 December.
Public price
Adult : €7.50Kid : Free
Price with the pass
Adult : FreeKid : Free
Visit the Decorative Arts Museum in Strasbourg
[3 out of 9 museums of your choice in the City of Strasbourg by Pass] The decorative arts collections trace the diversity and evolution of Strasbourg's applied arts from 1681 to 1870, particularly in the areas of furniture, ceramics, clocks and silverware. The museum also presents a selection of mechanical toys from the Tomi Ungerer donation.
The prestigious palace of the cardinals of Rohan and the arts in Strasbourg in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the famous Hannong earthenware dishes. The Museum of Decorative Arts is housed on the ground floor of the Rohan Palace. The former residence of the four cardinals of Rohan, bishops and princes of Strasbourg, was built from 1732 to 1742 on the plans of architect Robert de Cotte.
Horaires d'ouverture
Open every day except Tuesday
From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm on weekdays
From 10am to 6pm on weekends
Closed on 1 January, Good Friday, 1 May, 1 and 11 November and 25 December.
Public price
Adult : €7.50Kid : Free
Price with the pass
Adult : FreeKid : Free
Visit the Fine Arts Museum in Strasbourg
[3 out of 9 museums of your choice in the City of Strasbourg by Pass] The Musée des Beaux-Arts presents an exceptional panorama of the history of painting in Europe from the Middle Ages to 1870: Italian and Flemish primitives (Giotto, Memling); the Renaissance and Mannerism (Botticelli, Raphael); the golden age of Dutch painting and the great names of Flemish painting (Rubens, Van Dyck); Baroque, Classicism and Naturalism in the 17th and 18th centuries (Vouet, Canaletto, Goya); Romanticism and Realism in the 19th century (Corot, Courbet). (Corot, Courbet).
A walk through paintings, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.The Fine Arts Museum was founded in 1880. Wilhelm Bode, curator in chief of the Berlin Museums, was asked to reconstitute the collections destroyed when the “Aubette” was burned down in 1870. Until 1914, Italian, Flemish and Dutch paintings were favored over French and German ones. The collections grew after 1919, under the guidance of H. Haug and his successors, with a notable increase in the number of French works. Unfortunately two disasters wreaked havoc on the palace: the building and the collections were seriously damaged when the Americans bombed the City in 1944 and the fire of 1947 destroyed several famous paintings. The priority today is given to the acquisition of French paintings ( 17th and 18th centuries), still poorly represented. The addition of the Kaufmann and Schlageter collection has drastically transformed the collections
Horaires d'ouverture
Open every day except Tuesday
From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 6pm on weekdays
From 10am to 6pm on weekends
Closed on 1 January, Good Friday, 1 May, 1 and 11 November and 25 December. Museum closed from 8 to 19 January inclusive.
Public price
Adult : €7.50Kid : Free
Price with the pass
Adult : FreeKid : Free