ADT - Tourisme en Alsace

The Bioscope

Leisure and discovery park (environment and pollution, ecosystems, etc.). The Bioscope teaches visitors about their environment.

68190 UNGERSHEIM
Tel. : 03 89 62 43 00
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Website : http://www.lebioscope.com
Group reservations: 0826 30 10 68 (0.15€/min)

Access :

• From Basle, Belfort or Mulhouse: A36, exit n°18, Bourtzwiller. Take the RD430 until the Pulversheim exit.
• From Strasbourg or Colmar: A35 towards Mulhouse, exit Guebwiller. Rejoin the RN 83 then the RD430 to Mulhouse. Exit Ungersheim.

For further information on…
Waste recovery, ecosystems, pollution, etc.

Ecomusée d'Alsace (Alsace Ecomuseum)

Tel. : 03 89 74 44 74
Fax : 03 89 74 44 65
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Website: www.ecomusee-alsace.com

For further information on…
Local architecture and crafts, agriculture, gardens, social life and natural environments.

Wood trades centre

LABAROCHE
Tel. : 03 89 78 94 18
Fax : 03 89 49 82 67
Website : www.musee-bois-labaroche.com

A living centre, the machines are switched on for visitors, several times a day, by dedicated guides. One sector is reserved for wooden toys and an educational area is specially designed for primary and secondary school pupils. Park and presentations: Three times a year, the museum puts on presentations in the park: one Sunday in May, 14 July and the last Sunday in September during heritage day. You can find out how to constitute a stock of wood for the winter, how to saw, split logs, etc.

Duration of the tour : 1h30

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The water-wheel driven saw, boiler, wood trades, clog shaper.

Jardins des papillons exotiques existants (Exotic butterfly gardens)

Route de Ribeauvillé
68150 HUNAWIHR
Tel. : 03 89 73 33 33
Fax : 03 89 73 88 87
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Website: www.jardinsdespapillons.fr

Live exotic butterflies, phasms, hairy beetles, crickets, tropical frogs, chameleons, etc.
Emergence of butterflies live from 10:00 to 15:00, shop projection room, etc.

Les jardins de Wesserling (Wesserling gardens)

Rue du Parc
68470 HUSSEREN-WESSERLING
Tel. : +33 (0)3 89 38 28 08
Fax : +33(0)3 89 82 68 32

Located at the foot of the castle on the southern moraine slope, the 4 Wesserling gardens have very different atmospheres. High quality heritage trees surround each area. The whole constitutes the biggest garden in Alsace, listed as a Historical Monument.

• Vegetable plots – succulent and full of scents;
• The French garden – geometric exactitude and open spaces;
• The English garden – mysterious and romantic;
• Mediterranean terraces – exotic and colourful.

The Park management and presentation association applies a deliberate policy of presentation and restoration of these gardens.

Presentations

These provide the opportunity to bring the garden concept, as developed at Wesserling, to life :

• respecting the environment;
• integration into the landscape;
• innovation.

La Maison du Parc

Permanent exhibition over 600 m² for exploring the natural environments, cultural heritage, landscapes and geology of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park.

1, cour de l’Abbaye
68140 MUNSTER
Tel. : 03 89 77 90 34
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Website: www.parc-ballons-vosges.fr

Moulin à huile de Storckensohn et maison de l’ouvrier montagnard (Storckensohn oil mill and mountain labourer's house)

Association de rénovation et mise en valeur du moulin
20, rue de la Mairie
68470 STORCKENSOHN
Tel. : 03 89 39 14 00

The Storckensohn oil mill is a magnificent 18th century mill which was used to extract oil from rape seed, sunflowers and walnuts and to press apples and pears to make cider.

The Storckensohn mill was built in 1732 and worked until 1962. Walnut, rape seed and sunflower oil and peasant cider (based on apples and pears) were made here.

After more than 200 years in use and thirty years of inactivity, the wheel was in poor condition. In 1991, a group of volunteers decided to renovate it.

Close to the mill you will find the Maison Munsch (small workers and peasant museum) where you can enjoy the warm atmosphere of the old 19th century houses.

For further information on…
Pressing apples, walnuts and hazelnuts, oil and cider.

La maison du Pays Welsche: museum of popular Arts and Traditions of the Welche region

9, rue de la Rochette
68240 FRELAND
Tel. : 03 89 71 90 52

Guided tours : from 01/06 to 30/09 every day except Wednesday

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Architecture, old houses, furnishings, trades of yesteryear, bread oven, flax oven, water wheel.
Restaurant in a large exhibition hall.

The Schlitte museum and wood trades

56, rue principale
68380 MUHLBACH SUR MUNSTER
Tel. : 03 89 77 61 08

The Association des Amis de la Schlitte (Friends of Schlitte) has set up a small museum at Muhlbach-sur-Munster with the intention of providing a memorial to forest activities before mechanisation, and particularly a very picturesque method of wood hauling: "schlittage". A schlitte was a kind of sleigh on runners, sliding over a track made of wooden cross-pieces and held at the front on the "schlitter's" back. A "schlittage track" has been reconstructed inside the museum. Visitors can also learn about the old carter's trade and the special equipment this activity required.

Opening hours :

• from July to early September, every day from 15:00 to 18:00
• the rest of the year by appointment for groups of more than 20.

For further information on…
Schlittage, varieties of wood and wood-working tools: clog-maker, wood-turner, carpenter and joiner, tub maker…

Schoppenwihr Park

68123 BENWIHR gare
Tel. : 03 89 41 48 81
Website: www.schoppenwihr.com

A unique arboretum with some of the most beautiful trees in Europe. Come and admire the remarkable trees, including a Himalayan pine, a Ginkgo Bi loba, a Giant Sequoia and many others.

Opening hours :

• From 1 April to 1 November: from 13:00 to 18:00
• From 1 November to 1 April and mornings: bookings on 03 89 41 48 81

Admission :

• 5€ for adults;
• 4€ for groups, pensioners and students;
• Free of charge for accompanied children under 16 and escorts of groups of 10.
• Remark: because of the fragility of the site, dogs are not admitted.

Petite Camargue alsacienne

The Petite Camargue Alsacienne shows you the particularities of the Rhine through two exhibitions :
"Rhine Memory" and "Salmon memory"

1, rue de la pisciculture
68300 SAINT-LOUIS
Tel. : 03 89 89 78 59
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Website: http://persowanadoo.fr/petite.camargue.alsacienne/

Eldorado Park

15 km from Colmar towards the Rhine
68320 ARTZENHEIM
Tel. : 03 89 86 67 58 ou 06 82 58 73 85

Stroll through a park full of rare plants with 5 000 different species.

Open from 1 May to the end of October, every Saturday and Sunday of each month from 14:00 to 19:00.

Stork park

Rue Guibert
68700 CERNAY

See the storks being fed: from Monday to Friday at 9:30, the weekend at 10:00 and every day at 15:00.

Information :

Office de tourisme (Tourist information office)
Tel. : 03 89 75 50 35
Fax : 03 89 75 49 24
Website : www.cernay.net
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