Colmar entdecken

The Unterlinden Museum occupies a 13th-century Dominican convent and opened to the public in 1853. Around its Gothic cloister it shows Upper Rhine art of the 15th and 16th centuries, including Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece in the former convent church, while a 2015 extension by Herzog & de Meuron holds the modern collection.

The Musée Bartholdi occupies the Colmar birthplace of the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, left to the town by his widow in 1907 and opened as a museum in 1922. It shows his models, drawings and paintings, including studies for the Statue of Liberty and the Lion of Belfort, and his bronze group Les Grands Soutiens du Monde stands in the courtyard.

The Toy Museum of Colmar opened in 1993 in a former neighbourhood cinema on Rue Vauban and has been run by the city since 2024. More than 1,000 toys from the 19th century to today fill three floors, from old teddy bears and dolls to Barbie, Playmobil, robots and video games, and a model railway runs across the whole second floor.