The Théâtre municipal de Colmar is a

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

located in Colmar, in the French department of

Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin (, ; Alsatian: ''Owerelsàss'' or '; german: Oberelsass, ) is a department in the Grand Est region of France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means ''Upper Rhine''. Haut-Rhin is th ...

. The circular room is designed in the tradition of Italian theaters and includes three galleries. It is located in the Rue Kleber, next to the

Unterlinden Museum The Unterlinden Museum (French: ''Musée Unterlinden'') is located in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France. The museum, housed in a 13th-century Dominican religious sisters' convent and a 1906 former public baths building, is home to the Isenhe ...

. The building was constructed between 1847 and 1849, to replace an old part of the Unterlinden convent. It was opened on 8 March 1849 and underwent a restoration in 2000. It displays a French stylish exterior with five bays. The interior design is the work of Boulangé. The yearly attendance is about 30,000.

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