Visit to the Gingerbread and alsatian folk art Museum
LocalIt is impossible to drive through Gertwiller without being attracted by a house reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel's fairy tale and decorated with gingerbread! Welcome to Lips, a traditional gingerbread maker. A treat for the taste buds and a real house like in the fairy tales! Discover the history and secrets of gingerbread, the Alsatian delicacy!
Enter and discover an extraordinary museum referring to gingerbread and the rural life of the past. Michel Habsiger, a passionate collector, exhibits some 10,000 objects in an area of more than 350m²: old moulds, pottery, tools of the trades of yesteryear...
In this house, gingerbread has been prepared by hand for two centuries according to jealously guarded recipes.
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The Museum is open Monday to Saturday from 8.30am to 12pm and from 1.30pm to 6pm and on Sunday from 9.30am to 12pm and from 2pm to 6pm.Gingerbread and alsatian folk art Museum
The Gingerbread Museum is the result of over 50 years of collecting by Michel Habsiger. In the old 18th century barn, more than 10,000 objects are exhibited on 350m², retracing the history of gingerbread and other sweets of the past, as well as all sorts of folk art objects that accompanied rural life in Alsace.