Museums

The Musée Vaudois de la Vigne et du Vin (Vine and Wine Museum) is housed in the impressive Château d'Aigle. Almost 2,000 years of wine-producing history and cultural traditions is displayed and illustrated, in addition to information about jobs in the wine-producing industry.

The BAUD Museum is a paradise for lovers of mechanical musical instruments. The unique collection was created by a family of enthusiasts whose passion has also been their craft and profession for three generations. 55 pieces are displayed, among them are pianos, fairground organs, music boxes and other mechanical instruments.

The Elysée Museum, a magnificent late-18th century villa with terraced gardens offering a superb view of Lake Geneva and the French Alps, has been completely dedicated to photography since 1985.

Come and discover the Olympic Museum, where you will be able to relive all the momentous occasions in the Games' history through the exceptional scenes on display and the special effects used to enhance them. The Olympic Museum is the world's largest information centre relating to the Olympic Games.

The Hermitage Foundation is dedicated to temporary Fine Art exhibitions, and is located inside a beautiful 19th century residence surrounded by magnificent parkland that is open to the public.

The Foundation is designed to advertise the art of watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux. Visitors can choose to follow a guided tour of the Museum or wander around it alone. Local businesses exhibit samples of watches in their current collections.

The Château de Prangins was built in the 18th century by Louis Guiguer, a Swiss banker living in Paris, and has hosted illustrious guests from Voltaire to Joseph Bonaparte.

Sainte-Croix has been known as the world capital for music boxes for over a century. The machines, which range from Vaucanson styles to contemporary designers, present a fantastic and poetic spectacle.

Human beings must eat to live - a fact so evident it tends to hide the really complex matter of feeding a specific village, city, region or country in a given era. The Food Museum presents the different stages of the path travelled by food as it moves from the producer to the consumer.

The "Maison d'Ailleurs" (House of Elsewhere) is a Science Fiction, Utopia and Otherworldly Travel Museum. It is the only one of its kind in the whole world and displays several truly exceptional collections and a total of 40,000 pieces.