Museum of the Château des Rohan

Perched on the Alsace wine route, about twenty kilometers from Strasbourg, the Museum of the Cultural Center of the Château des Rohan occupies a former 17th-century episcopal residence. This castle, originally built in the 15th century as a moated fortress, was the residence of the four Rohan cardinals between 1704 and 1789. Sold as national property during the Revolution, it later became a weapons factory in the 19th century before being purchased by the city in 1962. Restored in the 1980s, the museum was installed in its north wing in 1995.

On the ground floor, a section traces the history of Mutzig and its monuments through models and photographs.

One room is dedicated to the Roman and Merovingian periods, where a skeleton is displayed. The second floor houses collections of bladed weapons made in Klingenthal during the First Empire, the Restoration, and the Second Empire, as well as rifles produced by the Mutzig Arms Factory, including the famous Chassepot.

The top floor offers a permanent exhibition, in collaboration with Archaeology Alsace, dedicated to discoveries made at the prehistoric site of Rain in Mutzig.

Since 2010, summer excavations have been conducted there by a mixed team of professionals, amateurs, and students.

Dated to about 90,000 years ago, this site reveals repeated occupation by Neanderthal Man, a nomadic hunter-gatherer of the Middle Paleolithic. The exhibition presents his environment, the reasons for his settlement on the Felsbourg massif, and his way of life in the Bruche valley. Accessible to all, it relies on remains, maps, excavation visuals, and reconstructions to didactically explain this Neanderthal camp.

All permanent exhibitions are accessible to groups of more than ten people by reservation.