A Possen Museum, a Moselle winegrowers' house from 1617

The A Possen Museum is what makes a stop in Bech-Kleinmacher worthwhile. It isn’t a wine museum of barrels and labels. It’s a Moselle winegrowers’ home kept as though the family had just stepped out. If you only have time for one museum in the whole valley, I’d choose this one.

A house from 1617 and two collectors

The story begins in 1965, when Gaby and Prosper Kayser-Gales, a couple of collectors devoted to Moselle history, bought the house known as the Possenhaus, whose origins go back to 1617. They first opened it to the public in 1967 and over the years bought the neighbouring houses to form today’s museum. A friends’ association followed in 1972 and the restaurant in 1977. Since 1993 a foundation has run it under an agreement with the national tourism directorate and the commune of Schengen, and in 2018 the museum concept was redesigned.

What’s inside?

The heart of it is the Possenhaus, which drops you into the routines of a Moselle household two centuries ago. There’s the black kitchen with its pot hook over the fire, the Stuff, which was the family’s best room, and the bedrooms where several generations shared the house. The furniture and utensils are the real thing.

The Wëttelsscheier, the old barn, is given over to the winegrower’s year, from tending the vines to making the wine and the cooper’s trade. It also covers what I find the most striking part of the whole museum, the hard living conditions that pushed many Moselle people to emigrate in the 19th century. One object sums it up, the halette, a woman’s sun bonnet the museum uses to tell the story of women’s work in the vineyards.

Other crafts are spread across the houses, from shoemaker to tailor and weaver, and a bread oven explains how each family baked with its own sourdough and reused the ash as washing powder or fertiliser. The regional tourist board mentions 400 m² of displays and a fine collection of toys and glassware.

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Hours, price and when to go

In September 2026 the hours were 10:00 to 18:00 every day except Monday. It also opens on four bank holidays, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, Ascension Day and Assumption Day, with a break from 12:30 to 13:00. Adults pay €5 and children go free, and the LuxembourgPass covers entry entirely. Tickets can be bought online.

An hour is enough to see it properly. I’d go in the morning before any groups arrive and keep the afternoon for tasting along the river.

With children, and the museum’s programme

The museum runs workshops for 6 to 12-year-olds, guided tours, talks on Moselle history and intergenerational activities, with themes that change through the year. I won’t give dates, because the programme online changes often, but it’s worth checking before a family trip. More ideas for the kids are in Luxembourg with kids.

The museum looks outward too. Together with the future Wäinhaus at Ehnen it has launched the Cahiers mosellans, a publication inviting researchers to write about the region, and its talks have covered subjects such as flax and hemp in the self-sufficient Moselle of the 18th and 19th centuries. It’s a small museum that behaves like a living archive, and you can feel it in the way it tells its story.

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Getting there

The museum is at 2 Keeseschgässel in the centre of Bech-Kleinmacher, between Remich and Wellenstein. There’s no railway station, but buses are free inside Luxembourg and timetables are on mobiliteit.lu. If you arrive in Luxembourg City by train from Brussels or Paris, it makes a comfortable half-day out, and if you’re cycling along the riverbank from Remich it’s a stop you’ll pass anyway.

Lunch afterwards and where next

After your visit, the Wäistuff A Possen, the museum’s own restaurant since 1977, serves Luxembourg dishes in a traditional setting. It’s the only place to eat I’ll name on this page, because it’s part of the museum.

To round off the day, the Schengen Museum is a few kilometres south and also included in the LuxembourgPass. Further north, the wine museum at Ehnen was closed for renovation in September 2026, as I explain on the Ehnen Wine Museum page. For the rest of the country’s collections, see museums in Luxembourg.

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