The Château Musée Vodou is a museum in Strasbourg. Founded in 2014, the museum houses the most important private collection of Voodoo art in the world. The seat of the museum is the old castle "Eau de la gare", built in 1878 and part of the historical monuments of France. The museum's collection of Voodoo objects originates from the countries of Togo, Benin, Hana and Nigeria, and was created by the founders of the museum, the spouses Marc and Marie Luce Arbogast with the aim of making this culture more known to the general public and religion. The collection consists of 1060 works, of which 220 are open to the public. Voodoo is an African and South American religious practice, born around the seventeenth century. The word derives from the African word vodu, which literally means "spirit", "divinity", or even more literally "sign of the profound". Today voodoo is practiced by around sixty million people around the world, and has recently acquired the privilege of being recognized as an official religion in Benin where it is thriving in a church that 80% of the population adheres to, and in Haiti, where it is practiced by a large part of the population. Unlike what is commonly believed, voodoo is not a phenomenon linked only to black magic but a religion in all respects, and is endowed with a deep body of moral and social doctrines, as well as a complex cosmology. The Musée Voudou is also active in organizing temporary exhibitions and podcasts and conferences.