The Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame is a Strasbourg museum. It is dedicated to the plastic and decorative art of the Upper Rhine territory (territory of Alsace, Pays de Bade, Rhenish Switzerland and Palatinate) from the Early Middle Ages to the annexation of Alsace to France in 1861. The seat of museum is located in the historic building of the Fondation de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, near the Palais des Rohan. The museum's collections include vast collections from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which testify to the prestigious past of the city, which from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was one of the most important artistic centers of the Germanic Empire. The heart of the museum's collection are the remains from the Notre Dame Cathedral, such as architectural elements, statues, altarpieces, tapestries, period maps, stained glass windows, which are among the finest examples of the art of the high rhine of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection also consists of additional paintings by important Renaissance authors of the area. Furthermore, inside the museum there is a small garden with the medicinal plants used at the time.