Museums
Select your Region:
Switzerland - the country of museums.
Aigle (Lake Geneva Region)
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.
Alberswil-Willisau (Central Switzerland)
History and development of agriculture in Switzerland.
Baden (Zurich (Region))
Thanks to the bequest by John A. Brown, a descendent of Sidney und Jenny Brown-Sulzer who died in 1987, Villa Langmatt was made accessible to the public as an Impressionist art and home decor museum. The Villa, built in 1900/01 by the architects Moser and Curjel, is home to a gallery with paintings by important French Impressionists and their forerunners.
Basel (Basel Region)
Masterpieces in the classical modern style: at the Beyeler Foundation, you can see one of the most famous private collections in the world, with masterpieces of classical modern art.
Basel (Basel Region)
The architect Mario Botta designed the Museum Jean Tinguely. It is devoted to the life and work of this major sculptor in iron.
Basel (Basel Region)
The Basel Museum of Ancient Art is the only Swiss museum devoted exclusively to Classical Antiquity. It contains Greek, Etruscan and Roman works, predominantly from the period 1000 B.C.
Basel (Basel Region)
Basel is the home of Switzerland's largest ethnological and folk art collections. The museum is particularly rich in exhibits from the South Seas and from Indonesia.
Basel (Basel Region)
The emphasis of the "Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel" is on Upper Rheinish and Flemish paintings and drawing from 1400 to 1600 and on 19th and 20th century art.
Basel (Basel Region)
A tour of the Natural History Museum is like an expedition into the remotest corners of our planet where the most beautiful minerals originate, or into the distant past when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Natural objects - the largest as well as the smallest - are there to be discovered, inspected and contemplated. A memorable experience.
Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)
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.
Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)
Largest diorama exhibit in Europe: 220 showcases depicting native and exotic birds and mammals in their natural habitat. The famous "Barry", the Saint Bernard dog.
Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)
With approximately 4,000 pictures by Paul Klee, the famous painter, the new Zentrum Paul Klee is the largest collection of this kind worldwide.
Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)
The only museum dedicated to the Swiss Alps introduces the visitors to cultural and natural pecularities of the Alpine world. The journey of discovery into the past and present of the Swiss Alps and their cultural and natural peculiarities is accompanied by videos, commented slides, multivision, info-stations, representations, and impressive originals.
Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)
The only museum in Switzerland dedicated exclusively to communication in its entire bandwidth, from body language and culture dialogue to the exchange of information using old and new media.
Brienz (Bernese Oberland)
The Swiss Open-Air Museum at Ballenberg
shows Switzerland as it used to be.
Brugg (Schweizer Mittelland)
The Museum will be closed until November 2008 for renovation work.
Bulle (Fribourg Region)
Visit the Gruyere Museum and discover local traditional ways and customs, and the treasured heritage of the area: poyas, sculpted spoons, wardrobes and costumes are displayed in a modern setting.
Bürglen (Central Switzerland)
This museum contains the most comprehensive collection of historical and artistic documents, accounts and miscellany spanning six centuries relating to the Swiss patriot, William Tell.
Estavayer-le-Lac (Fribourg Region)
In the Frog Museum, you will find something that is truly one of a kind: a collection of 108 stuffed frogs arranged in scenes portraying everyday life in the 19th-century.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
The Ariana Museum houses one of the richest and most beautiful ceramic and glass collections in Europe.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
The exhibitions in an area of 7,000 square metres allow you to see fabulous archaeological, fine art and applied art treasures. The archaeological section gives you the chance to immerse yourself in local and regional prehistory, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquity and Etruscan, Greek and Roman civilizations.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
Whether through sculptures, masks, jewels, ritual objects, cloth and all types of ornaments, or through forms, styles and materials, so-called primitive man has always gone in search of beauty and the expression of it.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
The Ethnography Museum, one of the most important and diverse collections in Switzerland, displays 60,000 objects, 50,000 photos, 20,000 books and thousands of documents.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
The Natural History Museum is one of the most modern in Europe. Along the two kilometers of corridors over four floors, you will encounter 3,500 mammals, birds, vertebrates, invertebrates and numerous stuffed specimens of the regional, exotic and marine wildlife.
Genève (Geneva (Region))
More than 10 centuries' worth of Chinese and Japanese art are displayed in the Baur Collections, a marvellous voyage through Eastern civilizations. Presented with impeccable sobriety and elegance, the multitude of pieces assembled by Alfred Baur is of exceptional quality.
