🏛️ Palatine Stonemason Museum

The Palatine Stonemason Museum is housed in a listed, historical, timber-framed house on the market place of the village of Alsenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The museum contains exhibits and documents related to the history of stonemasonry and the use of sandstone in the region, from quarrying to the different processing techniques. The equipment and tools of the stonecutter, the versatility of sandstone, the social history and life of stonecutters and their families, are the subject of the exhibition.