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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.

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 [de] (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.

Gallery

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

References

External links

• Website of the Musée historique