FROM THE FIFTEENTH
TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS
FOLK ARTS AND TRADITIONS
DECORATIVE ARTS
OTHER MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS

ART OF THE FIFTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

The museum’s varied collections of works of art from the 15th to the 18th centuries are arrayed around the well-preserved cloister and chapel.

FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURIES

GPaintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings evoke artistic production north of the Alps at the end of the Middle Ages. Several German schools are represented, especially the art of the Upper Rhine for which Strasbourg, Colmar and Basel were important centres.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS

Discovered in the course of digs throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the collection covers several millennia, from the Neolithic era to the Merovingian period..

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FOLK ARTS AND TRADITIONS

One of the missions of the Unterlinden Museum is to serve as a repository of Alsatian folk art, both rural and urban, from the region of Colmar and southern Alsace more generally.

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DECORATIVE ARTS

Through a series of galleries, the museum offers a broad overview of decorative arts, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century – mainly furnishings, works in silver and gold, ceramic pieces and glassware – through presentations alternating historical reconstitutions with display cases focusing on a particular theme, technique, or chronological period.

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OTHER MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS

The history of the museum and its acquisitions explain the presence of rare collections even in an encyclopedic institution like the Unterlinden.

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