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The Musee Unterlinden occupies a former Dominican convent founded around 1230 beneath a grove of linden trees, which gave the place its name, under the lindens. Emptied during the French Revolution, the cloister was rescued in 1849 when a local society turned it into a museum that has grown into the most visited in Alsace. Its greatest treasure is the Isenheim Altarpiece, painted between 1512 and 1516 by Matthias Grunewald with carved figures by Niclaus of Haguenau, a harrowing and radiant masterpiece made for a monastery hospital that cared for the sick. In 2015 the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron doubled the museum by adding a modern wing linked to a former public bathhouse, so that medieval cloister and contemporary gallery now stand side by side.
Wissenswertes
- 1849 year — The abandoned convent reopened as a public museum
- 1512 year — Grunewald began the Isenheim Altarpiece, finished around 1516
- 200000 visitors — Come each year, making it the most visited museum in Alsace
📍 Rue d'Unterlinden, 68000, Colmar