Pottery Museum

Since the polished stone age, the abundant clay of the Rhine plain was used to shape utilitarian objects.

By the mid-19th century, this craft was still practiced in about thirty villages in Bas-Rhin. Today, only two centers keep this tradition alive: Betschdorf and Soufflenheim.

In Soufflenheim, brightly colored pottery is mainly intended for cooking food.

In Betschdorf, on the other hand, salt-glazed stoneware pots, recognizable by their gray color and cobalt blue patterns, are designed to store goods such as oil, lard, pickles, cabbage, or eggs.

These two villages thus represent two parallel histories and two distinct crafts, both still very much alive.