• Leave and come back during the day once you tell the ticket office, so a cooler in the car works; there are 8 shaded picnic areas and 3 places to eat on site
• Gravel paths throughout, which make strollers and wheelchairs hard going; wheelchairs are free to borrow at reception
• Fullest program on weekends and school holidays, with craft demonstrations, tastings and animal encounters through the day

The Écomusée d'Alsace is the largest open-air museum in France: around 80 half-timbered houses, workshops and farm buildings, moved here and rebuilt as a village, showing rural Alsace from the Middle Ages to the early 1900s.

Kids watch traditional crafts being demonstrated, meet some 60 farm animals of old local breeds, and walk the fields and forest around the village. It sits between Mulhouse and Colmar.