Musée historique de Haguenau

The Musée historique (Historical museum) is one of the three museums of Haguenau, France. 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 art museum as a museum dedicated to History.

Musée historique de Haguenau
Rear of the museum in March 2019
Established1900
Location9 Rue du Maréchal Foch, 67500 Haguenau, France
Coordinates48°48′46″N 7°47′29″E
TypeHistory museum
Archaeological museum
Art museum
Public transit accessBus Ritmo Line 1, stop Marché aux Grains[1]
Websitewww.ville-haguenau.fr/musee-historique

The museum was founded by the mayor, Xavier Nessel, who was also a keen amateur archaeologist. The building was initially designed to house the municipal collections, the municipal archive and the municipal library.[2] It was built by the architects Joseph Müller (1863–??) and Richard Kuder (1852–1912)[3] who also designed the Strassburger Sängerhaus.

Apart from artefacts relating to the history of the town, including its Jewish community, the museum owns a rich collection of archaeological finds from the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and the Gallo-Roman period. It also displays a number of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque 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 Strasbourg faience by the Hannong Family and a collection of modern art, including Art Nouveau glassware, and paintings.[4][5]

The ethnographic and folk art collections relating to Alsace were moved to the Musée alsacien nearby in 1972.

  • The building
  • Inside the museum
  • Prehistoric funerary objects
  • Jupiter Taranis, 2nd-century
  • Stele with three Goddesses, 3rd-century
  • Saint John (Evangelist), 15th-century
  • Christ and Apostles, 15th-century
  • Bust of a man, early 16th-century
  • Porcelain by Joseph Hannong, 18th-century
  • Art Nouveau curio cabinet, early 20th-century

References
  1. "MH - Informations pratiques". Ville de Haguenau. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  2. "MH - Le bâtiment". Ville de Haguenau. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  3. "Historical Museum". Structurae. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  4. "MH - Les collections". Ville de Haguenau. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  5. "Musée Historique". Musées d'Alsace. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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