In the middle of the 12th century the Cluniac monastery of St. Alban had a canal built to provide water power via water wheels for twelve mills. Ten of these mills were converted to paper mills during the course of the Middle Ages. Since 1980 today’s Paper Museum has been housed in the Stegreif and the Gallician mills. For 446 years, up to 1924, paper was still being made in these two buildings. The ornate rooms on the ground and first floors still testify to the erlier flourishing of the Gallician Family.
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Basel Paper Mill, Swiss Museum of Paper, Writing and Printing, Basel/ Switzerland
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