Voodoo Castle (Strasbourg)

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Château Vodou (or Château musée Vodou) is located in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace.

Founded in January 2014 by Marie-Luce and Marc Arbogast, and led by a local non-profit law association, this museum presents the largest private collection of voodoo art in France. This fonds is exhibited in the former water tower of the Strasbourg railway station built in 1878 and which has been listed as historical monuments since 1984. It is open Tuesday to Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. The visit is also possible for groups (at least 8 people) by reservation and outside these times. Young public visits were also developed in order to be able to welcome and make discover the mysteries of vodou.

The collection of vodou objects, originating in Togo, Benin, Ghana and Nigeria, gathered by Marc and Marie-Luce Arbogast, consists of more than 1000 pieces, 220 of which are presented in the framework of the permanent exhibition "Le vodou, l'art de voir otherwise". It is by far the largest collection of African vodou objects in the world. The collector's word...