200 Top Attractions 
The machines, which range from Vaucanson styles to contemporary designers, present a fantastic and poetic spectacle. The writer Pierrot comes to life and the acrobat performs tricks before your very eyes.
Opening hours:
Open all year round, from Tuesday to Sunday.
How to get there:
By car: the museum is 20 minutes' drive from the Yverdon-Ouest exit of the N1 (Bern - Lausanne - Zurich) motorway.
By train: take the TRAVYS (Yverdon - Sainte-Croix) train line from the Yverdon-les-Bains railway station.
CIMA Museum (Centre International de la Mécanique d'Art)
Sainte-Croix
Search Switzerland for
Alimentarium
Baden: Langmatt Foundation
Basel: Museum of Ethnology
Basel: Museum of Fine Arts
Basel: Museum-Ancient Art
Basel: Natural Museum
Basel: Tinguely Museum
Baud Museum
Bern: Communication Museum
Bern: Museum of Art
Bern: Natural History Museu
Bern: Swiss Alpine Museum
Brienz: Open Air Museum
Bulle: Gruyere Museum
Bürglen Tell-Museum
CIMA Museum
Estavayer: Frog Museum
Flawil: Maestrani Chocolate
Geneva: Ariana Museum
Geneva: Art & History
Geneva: Barbier-Muller Muse
Geneva: Baur Collections
Geneva: Ethnography Museum
Geneva: Natural History
Hermitage Foundation
Kyburg: Castle
Le Locle: Watch Museum
Lucerne: Transport Museum
Martigny: Gianadda
Meiringen: Sherlock Holmes
Melide: Swiss Miniatures
Musée de l'Elysée
Oberhofen: Castle / Museum
Olympic Museum
Prangins: Château
Riehen: Fondation Beyeler
Riggisberg:Abegg-Foundation
Romont: Window Museum
Schaffhausen: Modern Art
Schwyz: Forum CH Geschichte
Seewen: Museum of Musical A
St.Gallen: Textile Museum
The "Maison d'Ailleurs"
Thun: Castle and Museum
Vine and Wine Museum
Watchmakers' Area
Willisau: Agriculture
Winterthur: Photo Museum
Winterthur: Technorama
Winterthur: Villa Flora
Winterthur: «Am Römerholz»
Zürich: Art Museum
Zürich: Foundation Bührle
Zürich: National Museum
Zürich: Rietberg Museum
In 1796 Antoine Favre made the first music box. Sainte-Croix has been recognised as the world capital for these wonderful inventions for over a century.
More links
Contact Information
- Musée C.I.M.A.
Rue de l'Industrie 2
1450 Sainte-Croix
Tel. +41 (0)24 454 44 77
Fax +41 (0)24 454 44 79
cima.ste-croix@bluewin.ch - www.sainte-croix.ch