SERRET MUSEUM
(SAINT-AMARIN VALLEY)

Carrying the name of the General SERRET who ordered the terrible combat of Hartmannswillerkopf. It is placed in the old court which became "the mobile military hospital" since the first combat of 1914.
All the ground floor is devoted to the military forehead of the Vosges 1914-18 and Alsatian resistance. 1940-45

THE VALLEY ; ITS HISTORY... OIRE…
This stone announces us that we are here on the grounds of the old abbey of Murbach who founded also a glassmaking whose museum has a unique collection.
Other objects of excavations come from the castles of Friedbourg and Wildenstein .

The CRADLE OF THE TEXTILE
Weaving loom, boards to be printed, serrated rollers, books of sampling and fabrics recall that this valley was the cradle of manufactures of Indians in Alsace.

The GLASSMAKING OF WILDENSTEIN
The glassmaking wad founded by the prince-abbots of Murbach into 1699,. and existed until 1884.

The RELIGIOUS ART
A whole room is devoted to devotional objects: statues, fixed on glass, antiphonaires, church vestments, emblems of brotherhood.

SEALS AND CURRENCIES the right of coinage generated the exploitation of the money mines of the valley. Beautiful collection of currencies of Alsace of the Roman time at the end of the XVIth century. The cabinet of sigillography at the same time allows to commemorate the local past "seal of the chapter of Saint-Amarin of the XIIIth century" and to reconstitute all the history of religion.

CAPITULAR ROOM
Presentation of certain elements of the stalls of thecollegiate of Saint-Amarin transferred in 1442 to the Saint Thiébaut church of Thann which became by this fact a collegiate. Reproduction of seven panels of dorsal as well as mercies of stalls of the chapter of collegiate of St Amarin (Roman collegiate dating from the XI century and demolished about the middle of the XVIIIth century).

GALLERY OF PAINTING
Oil paintings of military artists of the war 1914/1918
Of which:
- Georges Scott
- Edmond Lajoux
Oil paintings of local and regional artists:
- Robert Kammerer
- Emile Isenbart
- Maurice Ehlinger
- Camille Greth
- George To handle
- Charles Walch