At first glance, glass feels cold and fragile.
But here, it feels alive!
The Lalique Museum is not just a place to see objects – it’s a place to slow down and notice. Flowers frozen in movement. Leaves shaped in crystal. Animals that seem ready to breathe. Every piece feels inspired by nature, as if the forest itself whispered ideas to the artist.
This is Europe’s only museum dedicated to René Lalique, a master of glass who believed beauty should be everywhere – not only in palaces, but in everyday life. Walking through the rooms, you don’t need to understand art history. You simply feel something, – curiosity, calm, wonder:
If you’re looking for a place where art meets nature, and glass tells stories without words, this is where glass becomes magic.
Not every child connects with glass art at first – and that’s completely fine. One of our kids (8 y.o.) wasn’t interested at the start.
What helped was the museum’s family-friendly tools: a video guide, a film about the Lalique factory’s glass-making process, and a printed game where children look for details, objects, and clues throughout the rooms, answering questions as they go.
Pictured below: a video guide (in English, French, and German)
Address: 40 rue du Hochberg, Wingen-sur-Moder, 1 hour by car from Strasbourg
Time to spend: around 1.5-2 hours
Keep an eye out for flowers and tiny glass insects hidden in unusual jewelry – they were our favorite!
Thanks for reading, friends!
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