Strasbourg's museums sit inside the argument between France and Germany: Rhenish Gothic sculpture, a Wilhelmine imperial quarter and Alsatian folk interiors, all within a twenty-minute walk. Three days of galleries, opera and the Krutenau art scene.
Adrien Fainsilber's 1998 glass nave on the Ill holds Kandinsky, Klee, Arp and Gustave Doré's vast Christ Leaving the Praetorium, plus rotating contemporary shows. Open Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, closed Mondays.
The 1730s prince-bishops' palace by Robert de Cotte houses the fine arts collection: Botticelli, Memling, Raphaël, El Greco, Goya and Courbet, hung through state rooms that keep their original boiseries.
Fifteenth-century houses behind the cathedral guard the original Gothic statuary taken off the facade, the c.1176 Wissembourg stained-glass head — the oldest figurative window in France — and the medieval parchment building drawings.
The German imperial quarter laid out 1880-1918: Wilhelmine palaces around the République roundabout, Rhenish neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic villas up Avenue des Vosges, added to UNESCO's list in 2017 beside the Grande Île.
Set inside the 1588 municipal slaughterhouse, the city museum runs from free-imperial-city status to 1945 and centres on Jean-Baptiste Seupel's 1727 relief plan, a twelve-square-metre wooden model of the fortified town.
Strasbourg's landmark bookshop off Place Kléber; the first-floor Salle blanche hosts free author talks most evenings and the shop keeps a deep Alsatian and German-language section rare anywhere west of the Rhine.
On Place Kléber, the ballroom, ciné-dancing and foyer-bar that Theo van Doesburg, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp painted in pure De Stijl geometry in 1928 — plastered over for fifty years, restored and reopened in 2006.
The 1821 neoclassical house on Place Broglie, fronted by six Muses on its portico; the company shares its productions with Mulhouse and Colmar and keeps a strong Wagner and new-creation line through each season.
Three linked Renaissance houses on Quai Saint-Nicolas, joined by open wooden galleries and crooked stairs, packed with Alsatian rural interiors, painted furniture, Jewish ritual objects and folk-medicine amulets.
The old fishermen's quarter east of the Ill, now the student and gallery district: Rue Sainte-Madeleine and Rue d'Austerlitz mix winstubs, second-hand record shops and small independent art spaces in one loop.
Villa Greiner holds some 11,000 drawings by Strasbourg-born illustrator Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019) — children's books, savage anti-war posters, erotic work — alongside graphic art by Saul Steinberg and Ronald Searle.
Strasbourg's main independent music venue since 1993, in a converted dairy on Rue du Hohwald, with two halls, resident artist studios and the long-running Molodoï alternative venue a few doors along the street.