The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Musée d´ Estavayer-le-Lac) is housed in a 15th century manor. Its exhibition displays archaeology, history, local culture, weapons as well as objects from everyday life and natural history and the collection is renowned for its collection of 108 prepared frogs in human poses, the reason it is also called the frog museum. … Read more » “Estavayer-le-Lac Museum”
In the Wallis House (1776) is an exhibition dedicated to the culture of Évolènarde of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Art and History Museum (Museum für Kunst und Geschichte/Musée d’art et d’histoire) presents a rich collection of art and archaeology from our origins to the present day. The biggest collection of Swiss sculpture from the first half of the 16th century. Spread over three old buildings in the town of Fribourg, the museum has … Read more » “Art and History Museum Fribourg”
The collections show religious relics from the 10th BC onward, starting with ancient Egyptian, oriental and Jewish works, found during archaeological projects in the Middle East. Christianity should develop a true cult of relics however and the biblical written word, apocryphal documents and objects are analysed to get insight into their meaning from their contemporary perspective. … Read more » “Bible Orient Museum”
The Centre mounts temporary exhibitions with experienced artists. With its coherent and forward-looking programme, Fri Art is a laboratory, a production centre open to the development of current artistic trends. The objectives of the association and Centre are to highlight artistic creation and promote contemporary research.
The museum shows the origins and development of the earth and regional and global fauna in ten thematically decorated rooms.
The Augustiner Museum brings together masterpieces from eight centuries of art. Highlights are the original sculptures from the Freiburg Cathedral, silverware and tapestries from monasteries, paintings by Hans Baldung Grien, Matthias Grünewald and Lucas Cranach the Elder, as well as works by famous painters from Baden, as Anselm Feuerbach, Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Hans Thoma. … Read more » “Augustiner Museum”
The Espace shows important works by Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) and Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and also organises temporary exhibitions.
The museum focuses on the history and technique of typesetting, graphic design, bookbinding, communication through language, signs, images and writing and gives an impression of their historical development.
The collection contains dolls for various playing techniques from all over the world, including China, India, Indonesia, Africa, South America and European countries. It also contains beautiful paper theatres, landscape scenery and masks.