Museums and art galleries

The museum gives an insight into the culture of living and the history of the city.

The church treasure is housed in the parish church of St. Pelagius.

The museum exhibits the local history of various villages. The collection contains objects, photographs and an archive.

The Pottery Museum shows the historic development of ceramics, dishes, pots, bricks, tiles and countless other articles of daily use, as well as the transition from working at home to working at a factory. The presentation also pays attention to the new technologies and includes many works of art.    

The village museum “alte Pinte” from the year 1772 affords a glance into a typical chalet from the Bernese Oberland with its rustic kitchen and rooms with furnishings and artifacts from 1730 to 1920.  

The museum shows annually three special exhibitions on changing themes as well as a small permanent exhibition on the village history of Bönigen.

The Stone Age  workplace and collection ( (Steinzeitwerkstatt) and the stilt houses show the prehistory with rich experience from the Neolithic period (5500-2200 B.C.), the techniques of stilt living, the making of tools and the prehistoric making of fire.

The Walserhaus is, above all, a museum of Walser German, the dialect spoken in Gurin. The historical buildings are also museums in themselves. The interior of one half of a house gives an authentic picture of the former way of life. The presentation of the Walser migration movements and their cultural legacy is also discussed … Read more » “Walser House Bosco Gurin”

The museum shows agricultural implements and machines, tools, a smithy, the Matthyse-Hus and the history of the village.  

The Axporama visitor centre offers a thoughtful way to learn more about energy. The advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of electricity production are explained, the people like energy consumers, wind and sun and “Climate Theatre” of the various facets of (global) energy are explained.