Museum of Unterlinden
The museum of Unterlinden is a Musée of association located at Colmar in the old convent of the Dominicain are of Unterlinden.
Raised between 1252 and 1269, the church equipped with a platform for the XVIIIe century adopts the standard plan of the churches of the orders beggars. The cloister not arched, with the pink sandstone arcades, was built of 1280 to 1289. The conventual church and buildings shelter from now on the museum. The buildings, with the abandonment since the French revolution, were saved by the Schongauer Company instituted in 1847.
The Unterlinden museum is the first museum of province in term of frequentation, in front of the Musée of the Sea (Biarritz).
The chief of work which gives him its international reputation is the Retable of Issenheim of Matthias Grünewald. The museum presents also a remarkable collection of Sacred art evoking the productions of the the Rhine higher of the Moyen-âge than the Renaissance.
The museum of Unterlinden has the label Musée of France.
External bonds
- Official site of the museum
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