Museums

The Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Weissfluhjoch/Davos carries out important research and reports on snow conditions.

The Kirchner Museum, which was established in honor of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the German Expressionist painter, is the greatest cultural attraction in Davos; it was highly acclaimed by the international architectural community.

Visit the world"s largest tunnel building site with tailor-made presentations on all aspects of the project, 3D models and film shows.

Special: Exhibits of Alpine Skiing and other alpine topics.

Once upon a time the artillery works in Crestawald near Sufers were a wellkept secret and carefully hidden from curious eyes. The works no longer have a protective function. The entire site was taken over by the Foundation for Military History of Graubünden.

The Segantini Museum in St. Moritz is dedicated to the painter Giovanni Segantini, who spent the last five years of his life in the Engadine. His most important work is the painting "Nature, Life, Death" (La nature, la vita, la morte).

The fabulous house of the sensitive artist contains a comprehensive collection of her work - picture stories, paintings, sketches and studies - for future generations to see.

Villa Planta was named after the builder Jacques Ambrosius von Planta and was built by the architect Johannes Ludwig as a private residence between 1874 and 1975 . It later became the Administrative Office of the Rhaetian Railroad; since 1919 it is Graubünden's Art Museum.

The Graubünden Museum of History is located in the Buol house in Chur's Old Town. The exhibition includes archaeological, cultural and folk art objects from all over Graubünden from pre-historic times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Baroque periods through to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The collections of various Graubünden natural history enthusiasts from the 19th and 20th centuries formed the basis for the establishment of the Graubünden Natural History Museum. This is a centre of information for the study of regional natural sciences.