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Le Vaisseau
Le Vaisseau , 2.5km southeast of the Cathédrale Notre Dame, is an interactive, hands-on science and technology museum aimed at kids aged three to 15. Everything is trilingual (English, French and German). From the Esplanade tram stop, the museum is one stop away on bus 7.
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Musée Alsacien
Housed in three typical houses from the 1500s and 1600s, the Musée Alsacien , affords a fascinating glimpse of Alsatian life over the centuries. Displays in the museum's two dozen rooms include kitchen equipment (stoves, ceramics, biscuit cutters), children's toys, colourful furniture and even a tiny 18th-century synagogue.
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Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain
The outstanding Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain displays a permanent collection of 'modern' (pre-WWII) art representing all the major movements (including impressionism, symbolism, Fauvism, cubism, Dadaism and surrealism) and hosts temporary exhibits of contemporary works.
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Musée de l'Œuvre Notre Dame
Occupying a group of magnificent 14th- and 16th-century buildings, the renowned Musée de l'Œuvre Notre Dame houses one of Europe's premier collections of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance sculptures (including many originals from the cathedral), 15th-century paintings and stained glass. Christ de Wissembourg (c 1060; Room Two) is the oldest work of stained glass in France. The celebrated figures of a blindfolded and downcast Synagogue (representing Judaism) and a serenely victorious Église (the Church), which date from approximately 1230 and once flanked the southern entrance to the cathedral (the statues there now are copies), are in Room Seven.
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Palais Rohan
The majestic Palais Rohan was built between 1732 and 1742 as a residence for the city's princely bishops. In the basement, the Musée Archéologique (audioguide included in ticket price) takes you from the Palaeolithic period to AD 800. On the ground floor is the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which has a series of lavish rooms featuring the lifestyle of the rich and powerful during the 18th century.
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