Museums

Baker Street 221 b: The carefully reconstructed room in which Sherlock worked and lived can be visited in the Sherlock Holmes Museum.

Swissminiatur shows you the most picturesque features of Switzerland - towns, villages, monuments, transportation, all at a scale of 1:25.

Picturesque Oberhofen Castle is situated on the shores of Lake Thun. A branch of Bern's Historical Museum, it houses today an important exhibition of Bernese living.

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.

The Abegg Foundation is an institute of art history which devotes its research to early textiles and applied art.

The charming medieval town of Romont is perched on a hill in Fribourg. The castle there houses its own Stained Glass Window Museum, which is one of a kind in Switzerland.

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.

An important museum of contemporary art, the "Hallen für Neue Kunst", has found an attractive home in a former textile factory.

The Forum of Swiss History shows the daily life of our ancestors between 1300 and 1800.

In the idyllic town of Seewen in Solothurn, the Museum of Musical Automatons maintains Dr. Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher's large and important collection composed of nearly 400 mechanical instruments and orchestrions. The museum which opened in a new building in 2000 is wheelchair accessible.