Best places: Local history museums in Bas-Rhin

Elegant Belle Epoque mansion housing a museum with 18th-century French furniture & decorative arts.

Victor Hugo's evocative apartment, decorated with original furniture, plus artifacts and sketches.

Museum set in 16th- & 17th-century mansions, with displays on Alsatian art, folklore & rural life.

Museum tracing city's urban, social & political history with models, paintings & daily-life objects.

Underground passageways & exhibits on sanitation, plus tours of the city’s famed sewer network.

Museum of wine artifacts & memorabilia displayed in 15th-century vaulted cellars, with tastings.

Exhibitions on Balzac's life with personal items, manuscripts, 1st editions, memorabilia & library.

👍👍 Refusing and challenging the intrusion of Art into architecture, enemy of decorativeness and ornament, Adolf Loos considered function before aesthetics for its own sake and created this house for Tristan Tzara, born Samuel Rosenstock. cubic and bare on the outside but complex and rich on the inside...

Appointment-only Edith Piaf museum in her former apartment, with clothes, photos & belongings.