Écomusée of Alsace
The écomusée of Alsace is an alive village recreated of all parts on an industrial waste land of mines of Potash of Alsace. It is an alive museum in which and authentic Alsatian constructions reconstituted are gathered (half-timbered houses, houses of workmen, shop, town hall, strengthened tower, Halle of the festivals, closes, school, laundrette, gardens, fields…), generally old (some dating from XVe century) and worth visiting, where dressed up actors, of which some are voluntary, present traditional work of the area by means of tools of antan: blacksmith, cartwright, wet cooper, sawyer, saddler, carpenter, baker…). This vast museum living of outdoor, located near the commune of Ungersheim, often organizes convivial folk festivals, for the majority copied on the liturgical calendar. One can be also restored there, in refreshment bars or the restaurants. Its mission exceeds the simple fact of presenting buildings and the customs and habits of antan, but aims at the transmition of an alive inheritance by the training of craftsmen and the sensitizing of young people via classes of environment and stays in summer.
It also comprises a very large carousel-living room: “the Eden Palladium” (single in Europe), going back to 1909, a horse-gear and a building entirely dismountable. It was a place formerly reserved to the adults, who today made the joy of the children and whom functions since always with electricity (formerly using a steam dynamo), other models of the time having disappeared, very often in fires.
It is it should be noted that at present, Écomusée crosses a difficult master key and must face a social plan which will see disappearing more half of paid of the site as of January 2007… Today the site is saved by a partnership with its neighbor the bioscope.
External bonds
- Official site of écomusée the