Life in Mulhouse

Any student can buy the Carte Culture, which, for a small outlay, gives free access or reductions to museums, theatres, opera, cinemas and exhibitions, etc.

If you buy a PASS MUSEES you can get free entrance to some 170 museums in Alsace, Switzerland and Germany.

Shows and entertainment

Museums

Mulhouse has a world-famous collection of technical museums that reflect the city's industrial heritage.

  • Cité de l'Automobile (the vintage car collection of the Schlumpf brothers), over 500 vehicles www.collection-schlumpf.com
  • Cité du train - the national railway museum  www.citedutrain.com
  • Musée EDF Electropolis, all about electricity www.electropolis.tm.fr
  • Museum of printed textiles  www.musee-impression.com
  • Historical museum in the old town hall: archeology, especially neolithic, regional history; popular arts and traditions
  • Mineralogical museum of the Mulhouse industrial society
  • Fine-arts museum : 19th-century art
  • Musée de la Radio
  • Museum of Ceramics at the International art centre, in an old tile factory.
  • Zoological and botanical park
  • Écomusée of Alsace in the CAMSA
  • The Bioscope ecology theme park

Libraries

Mulhouse has a central library, 5 local libraries and a mediatheque specialising in the performing arts (Médiathèque de la Filature).

Cinemas

There are 3 cinemas in Mulhouse :

  • Le Palace shows arthouse and general public films
  • Le Bel Air, arthouse cinema
  • Le Kinepolis, multiplex with 14 auditoriums