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CRAC Alsace-Altkirch
Crac Alsace - Altkirch

Rhénan Center for Contemporary Art (CRAC Alsace)

Located in Altkirch and near Switzerland (Basel) and Germany (Friborg), the CRAC Alsace is a contemporary art center dedicated to research and creation which, through the design of exhibitions, d editions and specific actions of mediation, endeavors to support artistic production by promoting encounters between the public, artists and works.

COMMON VISITS TO EXHIBITIONS

The public service offers guided tours of the exhibitions throughout the year.
Every Saturday and Sunday at 15 p.m., mediations are organized.

Mediators accompany you in the exhibition and give you keys to understanding the works on display.

Guided tours of the exhibitions are also offered all week by appointment.

Altkirch

Cité du Train - SNCF Heritage

Terminus, everyone gets off! Climb aboard the trains that made the legend! Here you are at the Cité du Train, the largest railway museum in Europe. Embark on the world of exceptional locomotives and wagons, capture the important moments in the history of railways! A universe that will transport you through the ages!

Mulhouse

Sundgau Nature House

The Maison de la Nature du Sundgau, built by the Communauté des Communes de la Porte d'Alsace, offers nature discovery activities for all audiences.

Animations to live:

All year round, the Maison de la Nature du Sundgau offers activities for young people and the general public:

She supports teachers in their educational project on nature,
It organizes courses or camps with "nature" activities for young people during the holidays,
It also offers the general public a program of guided outings to discover the natural heritage of Sundgau, practical ecology workshops, festive events, etc.

What about summer?

The MNS offers guided outings to discover the Sundgauvian natural heritage, original evenings or fun workshops for families (program available on the website). For those who prefer to walk the Sundgau paths in complete autonomy, it also distributes guides for walks from Altenach.

The most curious will also take the time to browse, on the Altenach site, our discovery trail, the small geology gallery "the key to the soil" and they can spend a few moments in the Strange Grange, to meet a very particular universe ...

Altenach

Altkirch media library

Sundgau media library

The Sundgau Media Library is a service of the European Collectivity of Alsace whose missions consist in contributing to leisure activities, information, documentary research, permanent education and cultural activity of the population.

This service's mission is to promote the widest possible public's access to writing, images, sound and digital technology.

You can, on site and free of charge, consult and benefit from all our documents (video games, films, music, press, comics, literature, information, etc.) or register and borrow these same documents at home.

Altkirch

Haute-Alsace Memorial

The Memorial of Haute Alsace is a project which follows on from the exhibition Les Tranchées Oubliés. Personalities and local facts such as the Zero Kilometer, Corporal Jules-André Peugeot, Second Lieutenant Mayer or the unique character of this piece of Alsace occupied by the French army will make it possible to enhance the unique past of the region. Sundgau region in the Great War of 14-18. The Memorial allows visitors to discover the daily life of both soldiers and civilians during this conflict and to understand their different points of view.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED.

Danemarie

Navigation museum

8,5 km from Saint-Louis or 15 minutes by car. Navigation museum with an interesting permanent exhibition entitled "From Basel to the high seas", presenting the different traffic axes and the intermodality of transport between water, rail, road and air. You will understand that Basel and the Region of 3 Countries is truly at the crossroads of all roads. Take the opportunity to experience the ship driving simulator. A unique facility in the region.

Basel

Museum of Printing on Fabrics

Take part in the great adventure of textile manufacturers by entering into the history and techniques of printing on fabrics from the XNUMXth century to the present day. Flowers, Indians, cashmere in shimmering colors thus mingle with more contemporary textile creations in dyeing, printing or patchwork. Discover the extraordinary richness of the most important collection in the world through constantly updated temporary exhibitions.

Mulhouse

Werentzhouse Lovers Museum

Museum of Sundgauvien lovers and heritage

This museum, the smallest in the world and specialist in postcards, preserves a collection of more than 20.000 postcards in a thousand binders from the surrounding villages, some of which date back over a hundred years. Come and discover local customs, religious festivals, work in the fields, trades ... as well as the history of the postcard.

Werentzhouse

Museum of Fine Arts of Mulhouse

In nuance, come and discover the municipal museum of fine arts. Born from a triple ambition: to provide an overview of the history of art, to promote French painting and to support local artists. This museum will allow you to dive into rich and harmonious works. From Brueghel to Henner via Courbet: love this charming museum housed at Villa Steinbach which stands out for its charm and elegance.

Mulhouse

Museum of the Three Countries - exhibition of the Three Countries

About fifteen kms or about a quarter of an hour by car from Saint-Louis. The Three Countries Museum, subsidized by the European INTERREG program, is the only museum in Europe devoted to three countries: it is indeed interested in the Three Frontiers region, between the German Black Forest, the French Vosges and the Swiss Jura. The exhibition of the Three Countries, an unmissable experience! In French and German, the permanent exhibition of the Three Countries offers visitors an overview of the region formed by the Pays de Baden, Alsace and Northwestern Switzerland. What common traits link the inhabitants of the Upper Rhine Region to each other? What process led to the tripartition of this region? What are the repercussions of borders on politics, the economy and everyday life? In rooms accessible to all, many interactive stations as well as audio stations allow all generations to have fun during the visit. An important collection and major exhibitions! Each year, the Musée des Trois Pays presents several temporary exhibitions devoted to a wide variety of themes: history, current affairs, regional culture or local art. They are based on the museum's collection which comprises approximately 1 items. A database provides online information on the various funds.

Lörrach

About twenty minutes from Saint-Louis, the Basel toy museum brings together nearly 6000 objects: teddy bears, dolls, groceries for children, dolls' houses and rides. The toy museum has the largest collection of teddy bears in the world with 2500 pieces, the oldest of which dates back to 1904! Restaurant and souvenir shop on site.

Basel

Museum of the Fireman

One of the largest firefighter museums in France.

It takes over, completes, modernizes and above all presents in its own premises the prestigious collection which has so far constituted the museum of the firefighter of Mulhouse and which was presented within the framework of the Musée du Chemin de Fer à Mulhouse from 1978 to 2003.
Two halls (1100 and 1200 m2), showcases, an audio-visual room, a shop, a library ... Machines on wheels, a hundred equipment (equipment, clothing, unusual objects ...), a central full telephone, public fire alarms ...

Old Ferrette

Electropolis Museum

The museum tells the story of a fascinating adventure, that of electricity. It begins in Antiquity, crosses the centuries with many experiments, discoveries, theories and inventions… until today when everything is electric! Take part in the experiments as they were performed in the XNUMXth century and observe strange phenomena, to make your hair stand on end! Let yourself be seduced by the new multimedia show of "the big machine", the flagship of Mulhouse industrial history. In the new space "An electric future", enter a new era to discover the links between electricity, climate and the new lifestyles of the XNUMXst century. Especially for children: games, experiments, videos to understand how a battery, a light bulb, a motor work, to find out what happens when the current flows ...

Mulhouse

Mulhouse Historical Museum

At the heart of Mulhouse old town and its old town hall: flagship of Mulhouse heritage, discover Mulhouse from the Paleolithic to the present day in its Historical Museum. A themed tour will put the history of the city in perspective, while making you appreciate the art of living of the Alsatians of yesteryear.

Mulhouse

Huningue Historical and Military Museum

Before the reunion of Alsace with France, Huningue was a village. Louis XIV having entrusted his architect Vauban with the defense of the borders of the northeast, from Belfort to Landau and Phalsbourg. he established plans for a powerful fortress to defend this strategic bridgehead. The museum tells the story of the 3 sieges between 1796 and 1815. The artist Edouard Detaille immortalized the glorious exit of the 50 survivors of the garrison in 1815, then the fortress was dismantled.

Huningue

National Automobile Museum - Schlumpf Collection

A prestigious internationally recognized museum, the Automobile Museum presents some 430 exceptional vehicles, including 150 Bugattis. During your visit, take advantage of the animations, videos, simulators, playgrounds or even a classic car driving experience… a must!

Mulhouse

Farmer's Museum

This museum has an original history, a true fairy tale: it is an annex of the historical museum of Mulhouse created by a priest in love with his land and eager to save the witnesses and customs of yesteryear.

It is housed in a beautiful restored peasant house.

The collections revolve around several themes: trades, domestic life, agricultural life, religious life, and retrace the life of peasants in the Sundgau in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a world that seems far away ...

Oltingue

Swiss museum of architecture

Barely 1/4 hour from Saint-Louis, the Swiss Museum of Architecture broadens our vision of urban planning through international and thematic exhibitions addressing the various socio-political aspects of contemporary urban landscapes.

Basel

Altkirch Sundgauvien Museum

Sundgauvien Museum

The museum is currently closed for renovations.

Housed in a beautiful Renaissance building, residence of the former bailiffs, the Sundgauvien Museum presents the history, life and customs of southern Alsace and more particularly of Sundgau.

Altkirch

Museum Tinguely

15 minutes by bus (line 604, "Schifflände" stop), then correspondence with tram line 15 "Wettsteinplatz" stop, from Saint-Louis "Central crossroads. Located directly on the Rhine, the Tinguely Museum in Basel, designed by the ticinese architect Mario Botta houses the largest collection of works by Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most innovative and important Swiss artists of the XNUMXth century.
The permanent exhibition offers an overview of his work over four decades. Temporary exhibitions regularly present a wide range of artists and subjects including not only Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, flagship artists for Tinguely, his contemporary colleagues like Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein but also both artists of 'today based on Tinguely's ideas.

Basel

Mulhouse Olympic Skating Rink

This high-level sports complex (60m by 30m) offers users all the sliding activities: public skating sessions with musical entertainment, theme evenings and light show; a secure ice area for children every Sunday at sea; an ice school of more than 200 members, supervised by a qualified instructor; various entertainment shows and galas and a bar with a meeting room; birthdays are also organized. The rink can accommodate 1500 spectators.

Mulhouse

Ferrette swimming pool
Ferrette swimming pool

Ferrette swimming pool

Completely renovated in 2018, the new Ferrette swimming pool has a retractable roof in summer, a 25m sports pool, a paddling pool, a fun pool (counter-current, water jets, bubble bench …), Large green spaces. A "Well-Being" area is also accessible with sauna, hammam.

Ferrette

Les Rives de l'Ill swimming pool
Les Rives de l'Ill swimming pool

Swimming pool of Tagolsheim - the banks of the Ill

25-meter 5-line pool, learning pool and relaxation area (sauna, hammam, spa). Swimming courses and lessons, aquagym, aquabike, baby swimmers.

Tagolsheim

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