Museums and art galleries

The museum presents the local history and culture.

More than 1,000 dolls from all kinds of materials are on display in the museum.    

Within the former monastery complex, with a total area of 6,000 square meters of exhibition space under one roof, the Museum (Museum of All Saints)  presents artefacts from the monastery’s past alongside archaeological finds from the region, an exquisite antiquities collection, a.o the collections Marcel Ebnöther and Stemmler, the history of the city and economy of … Read more » “Museum zu Allerheiligen”

The Kunsthalle presents contemporary art and organizes exhibitions in this field.

The museum (Museum im  Zeughaus) collects, preserves and documents equipment, weapons, vehicles and musical instruments of the Swiss Army that were used in the 19th and 20th centuries and makes them accessible to the public.

Florentine Ariosto Jones (1841-1916), a watchmaker from Boston, founds the International Watch Company in 1868. He draws on the help of eminently qualified Swiss watchmakers, modern technology, and hydropower sourced from the nearby River Rhine to manufacture watches of the highest possible quality. The museum shows the historical timepieces and the rich history of IWC.

The museum shows the lives of the two pioneers Heinrich (1805-1874) and Henri (1844-1923) Moser. Three rooms in Charlottenfels Castle, the family residence in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, show the father Heinrich as a private man, as the builder of the dam named after him in Schaffhausen, as an internationally travelling merchant and finally as a … Read more » “Moser Museum Charlottenfels”

The permanent collection covers the regional history, archaeological finds from Celtic, Roman, Aleman and Burgundian periods, the Grasburg castle (a late medieval castle of the Hohenstaufen dynasty), the early days of tourism, glass and ceramics, porcelain, pottery, furniture and regional costumes.

The Foundation has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the years of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in Wallis.  

The museum has two locations with various aspects of viticulture as subjects. The Salquenen nature centre focuses on biodiversity and nature conservation in relation to viticulture. The wine museum in Sierre is dedicated to viticulture and organises thematic exhibitions in this field.