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Unterlinden Museum

Colmar, Grand Est, France
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About Unterlinden Museum

The Unterlinden Museum is located in Colmar, France, in the Alsace district. The museum, housed in a 13th century Dominican religious sisters' community and a 1906 previous open showers building, is home to the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald and highlights a vast gathering of nearby and worldwide works of art and made curios from ancient to contemporary occasions. The exhibition hall bears the quality mark Musee de France and is a standout amongst the most visited in France outside of the lle-de-France.

The museum was established in 1849, the structures having been spared by the Societe Schongauer and passed on to it by the region. The gathering at first revolved around a Roman mosaic found in Bergheim, Haut-Rhin, still shown today, and mortar duplicates of antique figures on advance from the Louver. In 1852, the focal point of the accumulation moved significantly, when the Isenheim Altarpiece just as the vast majority of the other expansive painted and additionally etched altarpieces from previous Colmar or Upper Rhenish holy places, nunneries and cloisters, were introduced in the structure.

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