The Musée historique (Historical museum) is one of the three museums of

Haguenau Haguenau (; or ; ; historical ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Bas-Rhin Département in France, department of France, of which it is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture. It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg ...

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. It was established in 1900 and inaugurated in 1905, when Haguenau was a German town and part of Alsace-Lorraine. In spite of its name, it is as much an

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as a museum dedicated to History. The museum was founded by the mayor, Xavier Nessel, who was also a keen amateur

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. The building was initially designed to house the municipal collections, the municipal archive and the municipal library. It was built by the architects Joseph Müller (1863–??) and (1852–1912) who also designed the Strassburger Sängerhaus. Apart from artefacts relating to the history of the town, including its

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, the museum owns a rich collection of archaeological finds from the

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, the

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, the

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and the Gallo-Roman period. It also displays a number of Romanesque, Gothic,

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and

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artworks from religious and secular buildings from the town and its surroundings; in many cases, those buildings themselves (such as Frederick Barbarossa's castle in Haguenau) have long disappeared. The museum also owns a collection of

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by the Hannong Family and a collection of modern art, including

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

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(among which the Henninger collection – 81 works by Gallé,

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, Daum, etc. and a cabinet by Majorelle – donated in 2014 and then worth €357,600 ()) and paintings. The ethnographic and folk art collections relating to Alsace were moved to the Musée alsacien nearby in 1972.

Gallery

Haguenau MuséeHist 10.JPG, The building Le hall du musée historique de Haguenau (35413658673).jpg, Inside the museum Haguenau Musée sépulture mobilier 1.JPG, Prehistoric funerary objects Jupiter-Taranis-Seltz (3).jpg, ''Jupiter Taranis'', 2nd-century Stèle aux trois divinités féminines-Bachhoffen.jpg, Stele with three Goddesses, 3rd-century Saint Jean l'Evangéliste attribué à Lux Kotter.jpg, ''Saint John (Evangelist)'', 15th-century Haguenau Musée historique décembre 2016 (07).jpg, ''Christ and Apostles'', 15th-century Haguenau Musée historique décembre 2016 (02).jpg, ''Bust of a man'', early 16th-century Joseph Hannong-Saucière en faïence.jpg, Porcelain by Joseph Hannong, 18th-century Musée historique de Haguenau-Art nouveau.jpg, Art Nouveau

curio cabinet A curio cabinet is a specialised type of display case, made predominantly of glass with a metal or wood framework, for presenting collections of curios, like figurines or other interesting objects that invoke curiosity, and perhaps share a co ...

, early 20th-century

References

External links

Website
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