The Alsatian Museum invites visitors to take a fascinating tour of several old Strasbourg townhouses, connected by stairs and wooden galleries. Thousands of exhibits such as traditional costumes, furniture, ceramics, toys and pictures with religious and secular motifs bear witness to Alsatian rural life in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are also replicas of characteristic interiors from different areas of Alsace (agricultural plains, vineyards, Vosges) as well as replicas of various workshops.
Several rooms are fairly faithful replicas of rural interiors, such as the parlor of a farm in Wintzenheim, while others are more imaginative, such as the kitchen and especially the alchemy laboratory of a pharmacist.
When walking through the individual rooms of the Alsatian Museum, the visitor has the impression of moving through a house whose residents have only been out briefly. The creaking floors and furniture that furnish each room, as well as the countless objects, each with meaning, evoke a life that is familiar to us and at the same time very different from the life we live today.
In order to continually open up new perspectives, the Alsatian Museum organizes numerous events and special exhibitions. They are evidence of the constant effort to connect past and present, tradition and modernity.