Château Musée Vodou
Former railway water tower of brick and iron, its old steam-era reservoirs now sheltering a vast collection of West African ritual art.
This guide to the Chateau Musee Vodou in Strasbourg starts with architect Johann Eduard Jacobsthal's 1878 water tower, built to cool steam locomotives and warm ten showers and ten bathtubs for railway workers, strictly split by sex. It follows the tower through an 1897 expansion and years of disuse, before turning to Marc and Marie-Luce Arbogast, who spent decades collecting vodou objects across Togo, Benin, Ghana and Nigeria and eventually bought the derelict tower. You'll hear how architect Michel Moretti reworked the old iron reservoirs around their collection. Look up at the sectioned tanks to trace where the original waterline once sat.
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