A beautiful old palace in central Strasbourg, the Rohan houses three museums - the Decorative Arts Museum, the Fine Arts Museum and the Archaeological Museum - within its grounds. It's also possible to visit the opulent living quarters from days gone by.
For many, the highlight of a visit to the Rohan Palace is the Decorative Arts Museum. Divided into two, the ground-floor museum deals with the cardinals' apartments of the 18th century and the decorative arts of Strasbourg, including ceramics, furniture, sculptures and lavish gold work.
The first-floor Fine Arts Museum houses Italian, French, Spanish, Flemish and Dutch paintings from the 14th to the late-19th centuries. Botticelli, Rafael, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Delacroix all feature.
The final (basement) museum is devoted to archaeology. Travelling as far back as 600,000 BC, the museum tracks Alsatian history up until 800 AD.