Museums and art galleries

The museum (Musée des Bisses) shows the history of the small rivers and the watermanagement in Valais.

The museum (Musée de l’Areuse) presents a collection of objects from prehistoric pile dwellings and the local (pre)history of Cortaillod and Auvernier, as well as regional history and folklore. The room on the first floor has remained almost unchanged since the end of the 19th century and is a witness to the museography of the period when the … Read more » “Areuse Museum”

The museum is dedicated to the wine culture and its history in the canton of Neuchâtel.

The Museum (Le musée de l’Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard) presents the history and arts of the mountain and the region from Roman Times onward. Roman and medieval Ecclesiastical art and the baroque church can be visited.      

The museum (Stadtmuseum) shows the history of this small medieval town.  

The Museum is a monument to the history of industrialisation and shows the use of electricity from the beginning to the present day. The (old) machines show the importance of hydropower for industrial development and the transformation of hydropower into electricity.  

The museum (Schweizer Holzbildhauerei Museum) is devoted to the craftmanship, knowledge, expertise and skills of woodcarving and shows a huge collection of wooden objects.  

The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the composer Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919).

The botanical Garden on the Brissago Islands of Lake Verbano cultivates around 1 700 plant species of the Mediterranean climate (the Mediterranean Basin, Chile, South Africa, Southwest Australia and California) and of the humid subtropical climate (in particular from Asia, but also from North and South America and Oceania).  

The museum (Ortsmuseum) housed in the town hall, shows the local and ecclesiastical history of the city.