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Palais de Rohan Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Hours Wed-Mon 10am-6pm
Address
2 place du Château
Phone 03-88-52-50-00
Prices Admission for 1 museum 4€ ($5.20) adults, 2€ ($2.60) students, free for children under 18; combo ticket 6€ ($7.80) adults, 3€ ($3.90) students, free for children under 18

Frommer's Review

This palace south of the cathedral was built from 1732 to 1742. It's an example of supreme elegance and proportion. Noted for its façades and rococo interior, it's one of the crowning design achievements in eastern France. On the first floor is a fine-arts museum (Musée des Beaux-Arts) with works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, El Greco, Goya, Watteau, Renoir, and Monet. On the street level is a decorative-arts museum that exhibits ceramics and the original machinery of the cathedral's first astronomical clock. Also on the premises are collections of artifacts excavated from nearby digs, focusing especially on art and utilitarian objects from the Roman and early medieval (Merovingian) eras.

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