Theme for 2025
"The Rhine Gap:
the natural resources of the subsoil in Northern Alsace...".
For this season, the museum has put together a series of events focusing on the Rhine Graben. This natural graben of the Rhine, over 300 km long and 40 km wide, has given rise to a distinctive landscape and subsoil. Is this geological collapse, which took place many, many years ago (Eocene-Oligocene, -34 Ma), a drawback or an opportunity?
In the magazine Les Saisons d'Alsace "Les mystères du sous-sol alsacien" (No. 96, May 2023), Dominique Jung states in his preface: "Everything can be found in the Alsatian subsoil: fossilized vegetation several million years old, mammoth tibias 25,000 years old, thermal waters already appreciated by the Romans, impeccable schists for Rieslings, marl-sandstone layers suitable for Gewurztraminers, sandstones from which Strasbourg cathedral was built, clay from which the potters of Betschdorf and Soufflenheim make incomparable jugs and terrines; and also copper and silver; oil and potash; and even lithium"...
As you'll have gathered, Alsace - and Northern Alsace at that - is a concentration of earth resources: clay, sandstone, iron, oil, groundwater, geothermal energy and lithium... all themes that will be explored during this season.
The team looks forward to seeing you at events on site or online (Facebook and our own website)...Discovery outings in partnership with a number of partners, including the Maison de l'archéologie in Niederbonn-les-Bains, the Cave de Cleebourg, the Schmitter pottery in Betschdorf, the Centre d'Initiation à la Nature in Munchhausen, and the ES geothermal power station in Rittershoffen... And "children-family" highlights or post-games for everyone to enjoy!
Let's get together soon to discover, communicate, marvel and be amazed...
We look forward to welcoming you!
"The Rhine Gap:
the natural resources of the subsoil in Northern Alsace...".
For this season, the museum has put together a series of events focusing on the Rhine Graben. This natural graben of the Rhine, over 300 km long and 40 km wide, has given rise to a distinctive landscape and subsoil. Is this geological collapse, which took place many, many years ago (Eocene-Oligocene, -34 Ma), a drawback or an opportunity?
In the magazine Les Saisons d'Alsace "Les mystères du sous-sol alsacien" (No. 96, May 2023), Dominique Jung states in his preface: "Everything can be found in the Alsatian subsoil: fossilized vegetation several million years old, mammoth tibias 25,000 years old, thermal waters already appreciated by the Romans, impeccable schists for Rieslings, marl-sandstone layers suitable for Gewurztraminers, sandstones from which Strasbourg cathedral was built, clay from which the potters of Betschdorf and Soufflenheim make incomparable jugs and terrines; and also copper and silver; oil and potash; and even lithium"...
As you'll have gathered, Alsace - and Northern Alsace at that - is a concentration of earth resources: clay, sandstone, iron, oil, groundwater, geothermal energy and lithium... all themes that will be explored during this season.
The team looks forward to seeing you at events on site or online (Facebook and our own website)...Discovery outings in partnership with a number of partners, including the Maison de l'archéologie in Niederbonn-les-Bains, the Cave de Cleebourg, the Schmitter pottery in Betschdorf, the Centre d'Initiation à la Nature in Munchhausen, and the ES geothermal power station in Rittershoffen... And "children-family" highlights or post-games for everyone to enjoy!
Let's get together soon to discover, communicate, marvel and be amazed...
We look forward to welcoming you!
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