Museums and art galleries

The museum offers discoveries in the local flora and fauna.  

The museum shows the world of soap, its production and marketing.

The collections portray the history of the textile industry, from its inception to the present, highlighting its triumphs and challenges. Among the highlights of the collection are late antique fabrics from Coptic graves in Egypt, historical embroideries dating back to the 14th century, handmade lace from major European lace-making centres, ethnological textiles, historical fabrics and … Read more » “Textile Museum St. Gallen”

The Nicola Erni Collection holds an extensive and in-depth collection of artworks in various media; photography (one of the world’s biggest private collections, the core being fashion photography, with works dating from the 1930s to today), sculpture, installations, paintings, and works on paper by artists such as Richard Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Maurizio Cattelan, Elmgreen & … Read more » “The Nicola Erni Collection”

The museum organizes permanent and temporary exhibitions and is a site for art, research and debate. The museum focuses in particular on women artists and to explore the notion of the feminine it its diverse facets, social, political and cultural.

Thun Castle (Schloss Thun) was built by Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen (1160 – 1218)  in 1200. The history of the region and current topics are shown on the five floors and in the special exhibition room.  

The large panorama of Thun was painted between 1809 and 1814 by Marquard Wocher (1760-1830). It is the first Swiss panorama painting and also the oldest to have survived of a genre first created two decades previously in England and Germany. The work measures 7.5 meters in height and 38 meters in length and is painted on paper … Read more » “Thun Panorama”

The museum (Kunstmuseum) presents a collection of  Swiss pop art and Swiss and other European artists from the nineteeth en twentieth centuries.  

Romain Coquibus is a painter, engraver and sculptor. At the beginning of 2017, he set up his studio at the Château de Vaumarcus (canton of Vaud) on the shores of Lake Neuchâtel. This is the beginning of his international career. His works are presented in national and international galleries, museums and art fairs.

The museum shows the history and culture of the region.