Museums

Historical embroideries from the 14th to the 20th century; lace from important European lace centers from the 15th to 20th century.

Thun's fascinating History Museum is located in a unique castle tower which was built by Berchtold V of Zähringen in 1195. Perched high above the town, it provides a good general picture of the region's cultural development during more than 2000 years.

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 Technorama is not just an exhibition of natural science, technology, technoart and phenomena.

The Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten presents about 600 paintings of German, Swiss and Austrian artists from the 18th to the 20th century. Until 1 August 2010 the two Oskar Reinhart collections are to be merged temporarily. The renovation of the Villa Am Römerholz provides a unique opportunity to see an important selection of its world-famous paintings by old masters and French Impressionists at the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten in Winterthur, set here in an exciting dialogue with part of Reinhart’s collection of paintings by German and Swiss painters.

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.

The E.G. Bührle Collection is one of the most prestigious of private art collections. It comprises medieval wood carvings and paintings by the old masters, but above all works by French artists of the 19th and 20th century.

Besides the permanent collection, the Kunsthaus presents changing exhibits which make the museum one of Switzerland's leading exhibition centers.

The "Green Hill", the enchanting Rieter Park, and its historic mansions form a unique backdrop for the presentation of the art of Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania.

The collection of the Bern Museum of Art comprises works from seven centuries. More than 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 works on paper are on display in the art museum.