Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse, Municipal art museum in Mulhouse, France.

The Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse occupies the Villa Steinbach, a three-storey corner mansion with a pale beige facade, dark hipped roof and a chamfered corner entrance. Inscriptions read "MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS" on the left and corner faces and "MUSEE HISTORIQUE" on the right. The building has a core of 1788 and a wing added in 1924; the permanent collection is shown on the first floor.

The institution was founded in 1864 by the Société Industrielle, an association of wealthy manufacturers seeking to open art to the public, and transitioned to municipal management in 1958 with expanded educational goals. This evolution shows how the museum's role shifted from private initiative to civic responsibility.

The museum's name comes from the Société industrielle de Mulhouse, which began buying art in 1831 and still owns over half of the roughly 1,000 paintings on permanent loan. Local industrialists bought at the Paris Salon and at the Salon de Mulhouse, held 16 times between 1836 and 1912; in 1899 Pissarro, Monet and Renoir each showed two works there, none bought. A room is devoted to Jean-Jacques Henner, of whom the museum holds 44 oils.

The permanent collections occupy the first floor of the Villa Steinbach on place Guillaume-Tell; the ground floor is given over to temporary exhibitions. Admission has been free since 1999. The 1788 core and the 1924 wing are joined, so the rooms follow one another without stairs between sections.

The mansion began as a private residence of a wealthy manufacturer and still maintains the intimate character of a family home rather than a formal institution. This connection between art and domestic space gives visitors a more personal experience of looking at works.