A museum that exhibits its treasures on popular traditions over the centuries and the cult of Saint-Thiébaut in a fairy tale room! To make your head spin...
The museum of Thann is located in an old wheat market built on the banks of the Thur in 1519, probably by Rémy Faesch. Until the 19th century, the hall housed the weekly grain market before the city planned to turn it into a festival hall.
Finally, this project was abandoned because the building suffered from the bombings of the First World War and it became the current museum of the city after the conflict, housing all the local history and this without interruption for more than a century, with the exception of the period of the Nazi occupation.
Various objects, works of art and remains of old buildings are exhibited on three floors in order to give a better account of the multisecular history of the city through the ages and the wars, but also of the local traditions, whether religious such as the cult of Saint-Thiébaut, secular, or at the crossroads of these two aspects.
On the first floor, one can see about fifteen panels made for the guards of the vineyards: the Bangards, as well as a room dedicated to the Thannois painter Charles Walch and which welcomes every year exhibitions related to art or history.
Finally, this project was abandoned because the building suffered from the bombings of the First World War and it became the current museum of the city after the conflict, housing all the local history and this without interruption for more than a century, with the exception of the period of the Nazi occupation.
Various objects, works of art and remains of old buildings are exhibited on three floors in order to give a better account of the multisecular history of the city through the ages and the wars, but also of the local traditions, whether religious such as the cult of Saint-Thiébaut, secular, or at the crossroads of these two aspects.
On the first floor, one can see about fifteen panels made for the guards of the vineyards: the Bangards, as well as a room dedicated to the Thannois painter Charles Walch and which welcomes every year exhibitions related to art or history.
Opening times
open today
Coordinates
DD
47.812202, 7.101771
DMS
47°48'43.9"N 7°06'06.4"E
UTM
32T 357889 5297172
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