Posts Tagged 'Isenheim Alter'

While in Strasbourg we took a short 40-minute train ride to Colmar. The town was very picturesque, but also very touristy. We especially enjoyed the Unterlinden museum.  The collection was not large, but well displayed and very diverse.  Make sure you go upstairs as we almost missed the best part of the museum. The Unterlinden is home to Grunewald’s stunning Isenheim Alter.  In the Dominican Church next door we saw Schongauer’s masterpiece Virgin in the Rosebush. For a ...