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Musée Unterlinden is an art and history museum in central Colmar, Alsace, France, with local and international collections spanning prehistory to the present.
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What's on here
Amour Alsace
Saturday, 10:003 EUR
Visite sensible, Conversation(s)
Saturday, 14:004.50 EUR
Atelier écriture Conversation(s)
Sunday, 10:00
Visite membres, Conversation(s)
Thursday, 18:15Free
Atelier adultes Le crayon inspiré, la ligne d’horizon
Friday, 14:004.50 EUR
Manifestation contre les violences de genre, sociales et d'état
Saturday, 14:00
Visite dessinée Conversation(s)
Sunday · All day
Once Upon a Night - Spectacle son et lumière - édition 2026
25 Nov – 3 Jan 20278 EUR
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Why go
- Rhine-region paintings and sculptures, especially works from the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The Ackerhof expansion by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, joining contemporary architecture with the historic museum.
- Modern and contemporary works by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet and Fernand Léger.
- Decorated wine barrels dating from the 14th to the 19th century.
Opening hours
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Monday09:00 – 18:00
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday09:00 – 18:00
Thursday09:00 – 18:00
Friday09:00 – 18:00
Saturday09:00 – 18:00
Sunday09:00 – 18:00
Don't miss
- Isenheim AltarpieceGrünewald painted the panels between 1512 and 1516 for the Antonite Order in Isenheim; Nicolas de Haguenau carved the sculpted section around 1515.Former convent church
- Noli me tangere triptychMartin Schongauer’s triptych depicts scenes from Christ’s Passion and the Virgin’s joys.Former Dominican convent
- Gallo-Roman mosaicA 3rd-century mosaic discovered at Bergheim in 1848.Former Dominican convent
Know before you go
- Open Monday and Wednesday–Sunday, 09:00–18:00; closed Tuesday.
What's inside
- Archaeological and medieval collections in the former Dominican convent, including domestic and funerary finds mostly from northern Haut-Rhin.
- A former municipal bathhouse built in 1906, with Art Nouveau details and a neo-Baroque façade.
- A three-room underground gallery beneath Rue des Unterlinden and the Mühlbach, linking the chapel to the new Ackerhof building.
- Sculpture, stained glass, weapons and musical instruments.
- Decorative and folk art, including Alsatian culinary objects, furniture and children’s toys from the 17th to early 20th centuries.
- A building for temporary exhibitions.
Interesting facts6
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2015
The 2015 expansion brought the area open to the public to 8,000 square metres.
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Albrecht Dürer admired Martin Schongauer’s engravings.
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The modern art collection grew through acquisitions and donations from the 1960s onward.
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150 years
The Société Schongauer has managed the museum for more than 150 years.
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The archaeological collection spans the Neolithic to the Merovingian period.
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1927
Jean-Jacques Waltz donated the decorated wine barrels in 1927.
Unterlinden Museum - Wikipedia
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History
Many early works in the museum’s collection came from churches and convents around Colmar during the Revolution.
- 1252–1269The convent church was begun in 1252 and consecrated by Albertus Magnus in 1269.
- 1289The cloister was completed.
- 1789After the nuns left during the Revolution, the convent served as military barracks.
- 1847Louis Hugot helped save the church and cloister, founded the Société Schongauer and organized a print cabinet.
- 1849The museum was established; its collection began with a Roman mosaic from Bergheim and plaster casts borrowed from the Louvre.
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- 1852The Isenheim Altarpiece and other major altarpieces were installed in the former convent church.
- 3 April 1853The museum opened to the public in the surviving convent buildings.
- 1854The former convent complex was designated a Monument historique.
- 2009–2015The former municipal baths were converted into a museum annex linked to the old building by underground galleries.
- 2015The expansion added a temporary exhibition building and renovated the cloister. The museum reopened on 12 December.
- 23 January 2016The expanded museum was officially inaugurated by President François Hollande.
Sources: Unterlinden Museum - Wikipedia · Musée Unterlinden - Wikipedia · Musée Unterlinden - Wikipedia · Musee Unterlinden: menu (its own site) · checked 7 Oct 2026
Where
1 rue d'Unterlinden, Colmar, 68000
- Website
- musee-unterlinden.com/
- Phone
- +33389201550
Questions and answers
Where is Musée Unterlinden?
At 1 rue d’Unterlinden, 68000 Colmar.
Is there somewhere to eat in Musée Unterlinden?
Café Restaurant Schongauer shares the museum building.
Which other Renaissance artists are represented at Musée Unterlinden?
Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Holbein the Elder.
Which types of work by Martin Schongauer does Musée Unterlinden hold?
Altarpieces, drawings, engravings and woodcuts.
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