"The function of the museum is to make good, not to make scholarly." Serge Chaumier, Altermuseology, ed. Hermann, 2018

His tastes and readings led him towards poetry. Employed in an architectural firm, he learned to draw plans and make surveys of ancient motifs at the Louvre Museum. It was there that he discovered the world of painting.

With nearly 10,000 works, the collection includes masterpieces of German Expressionism and Surrealism, important groups of geometric abstraction and neo-figurative painting from the 1980s.

In Lorraine, at the heart of the largest factories as well as confidential workshops, the secrets of crystal, the art of glass, ceramics and even violin making are revealed.

This French museum preserves the most important public collection of earthenware signed by Théodore Deck.

One of the most beautiful collections of printed fabrics in the world. The museum traces the technical and artistic history of Indian weaving in Alsace, as well as fabrics that come straight from India, Africa and Japan.