The Creator of the Statue of Liberty Everyone knows Lady Liberty who stands in America’s New York Harbor, but most folks don’t know a lot about the man who created her. The house where Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was born in 1834 is now a museum. Spend an hour or two ambling through the home’s exhibits which include an entire floor dedicated to...

The National Car Museum or Car City (Cité de l’Automobile) in Mulhouse features more than 500 vehicles, all in working order.  The cars are from a collection assembled by  Fritz Schlumpf, a Swiss industrialist who spent most of his life in Alsace. He devoted an extraordinary amount of money and energy collecting and repairing antique cars.  Some of the most...

Chocolate lovers must make time for this museum, lab, shop, and tearoom. The museum has interactive exhibits devoted to the well-loved Marquise de Sévigné brand, in addition to displays about the history of cocoa in general, and the process of producing chocolate from beans. Visitors also may visit the laboratory where chocolate is made. Museum admission isn’t necessary to enjoy...

This museum gets less attention than the city’s car and train museums, but it is well worth a visit, and there is no entrance fee. It’s located in the charming Villa Steinbach, built by a manufacturer of art canvas in the 18th century on land previously occupied by the Order of Teutonic Knights. In the 19th century, George Steinbach, a...

Monet and Picasso fans will want to spend an hour or so in this museum, which sits on a beautifully landscaped bank of the River Îll. Serious art lovers should expect to linger 2-3 hours, or more. The building itself is quite stunning. It opened in 1998, and is a striking work of glass, light, and space. The permanent collection...

Mulhouse is known as the birthplace of textile printing in Alsace. The industry began in 1746, when four city residents opened the first shop, and the city became the world-wide leader of textile manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The museum is as much a unique art exhibit as a historical museum. Plan to get lost in...

Cité du Train in Mulhouse is the largest railway museum in Europe with more than 1,000 cars,locomotives, and other train memorabilia. It also is very probably the best. The museum first opened in 1964 and reopened in January 2016 after a complete renovation. The expanded exhibition space holds a huge collection of French railway history. The Train Trail takes you on a...