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Aux grands maux les grands remèdes

Une pharmacie de campagne à l’Écomusée d’Alsace
Exhibitions
Les visiteurs lisent et découvrent les rites et croyances en Alsace
Fille qui regarde l'exposition
La pharmacie d'Illkirch de l'extérieur
Make your burns disappear with sauerkraut, use bacon rind for splinters, put onion on your eyelids when they’re swollen…. Popular beliefs have long been a source for treating little aches and pains.

At the Écomusée d’Alsace, the Illkirch-Graffenstaden house has been turned into a faithful replica of a rural pharmacy! It’ll show you how the health system worked in the early 20th century, at a time when healers, witches and charlatans made their voices heard alongside doctors, midwives and pharmacists.

This exhibition invites you to find out more about how treatment has evolved over the ages. You’ll be using your five senses to explore popular beliefs and medical plants in Alsace in a totally immersive exhibition for all the family!
This exhibition is available in
French

Museum details

Address
Chemin du Grosswald
68190
Ungersheim
+33 3 89 74 44 74
Opening hours

47.852640211521, 7.2872180714416

Contes
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Walpurgisnacht

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Atelier arboriculteurs
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Biodiversity Days

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Feuille de Pentecôte 1
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The Pentecostal foliage procession

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Alsaciennes
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The Écomusée d'Alsace celebrates its 40th anniversary

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Certificat études musée
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School certificate

The bell rings, and it's the end of the school year at the Écomusée d'Alsace. Become a schoolboy again for the Certificat d'Études, taking dictation, history, arithmetic and science tests in an old ...

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Certificat études musée
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School certificate

The bell rings, and it's the end of the school year at the Écomusée d'Alsace. Become a schoolboy again for the Certificat d'Études, taking dictation, history, arithmetic and science tests in an old ...

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Concerts Fête au Village
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La Fête au Village

In August, join in the festive summer evenings at the Écomusée d'Alsace. As night falls, the village lights up and comes alive with laughter and song: it's a veritable funfair of yesteryear! An ...

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Concerts Fête au Village
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La Fête au Village

In August, join in the festive summer evenings at the Écomusée d'Alsace. As night falls, the village lights up and comes alive with laughter and song: it's a veritable funfair of yesteryear! An ...

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Concerts Fête au Village
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La Fête au Village

In August, join in the festive summer evenings at the Écomusée d'Alsace. As night falls, the village lights up and comes alive with laughter and song: it's a veritable funfair of yesteryear! An ...

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Folk'Estival Écomusée d'Alsace
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16th Folk' Estival

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Place charpentiers Écomusée d'Alsace
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European Heritage Days

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Mémoires de Guerre Écomusée d'Alsace 1
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Mémoires de Guerre

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Cerclage des roues Arts du Feu
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Fire Arts

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Contes et légendes d'Automne - Écomusée d'Alsace
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Autumn Tales and Legends

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