Museums and art galleries

The Collegiate Church of St. Michael (Stift Beromünster, eleventh century) and its buildings (provost’s residence, custodian’s house, 30 canon’s residences and almshouses and Stiftstheater) are an architectural ensemble. The religious treasures include the Relic of Warnebert (7th century), ivories and illuminated books from the 8th– 14th centuries, the Limoge crucifiction, romanes, gothic, renaissance and baroque … Read more » “Collegiate Church St. Michael”

The museum (Schlossmuseum)  shows a rich collection on the history of the Beromünster Abbey and the oldest printing house in Switzerland.  

The Salt Mines are a vast underground labyrinth, several kilometres of which are open to visitors. The visitors will see the most spectacular and the most characteristic elements of the various excavation techniques used from when the first gallery was dug out in 1684, right up to modern times.

The collection contains works by Swiss artists from the 20th century. The themes are still lifes, portraits, landscapes and figures.

The museum (Schreibmachinen Museum) presents typewriters from the office-, company- and office world.      

Thematic groups present crafts, agriculture and tourism from around 1900. There is also a folkloristic collection and an archaeological collection with objects from the Iron and Roman period.  

The museum shows the Works by Jonas Breitenstein and Ernst Breitenstein and from the gallery of the familiy Adolf Tschudin (The collection Ruth Eidenbenz-Tschudin). Other themes are dedicated to the local and regional history and the “Fledermauskabinett”.

The museum displays thematically grouped utensils and agricultural implements from the rural life of previous generations.  

The museum (Dorfmuseum) provides an insight into the living culture of everyday life and presents a variety of utensils used by previous generations in the home, courtyard and field.

The museum houses the history, social, religious and cultural developments of the local community and the region.