The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The local museum (Ortsmuseum) and the crafts museum (Handwerksmuseum Gattersagi) work closely together. The local museum presents a complete cooper’s workshop, hand tools and a collection of objects from village life in the countryside. The heart of the Crafts Museum is the almost 100 year old saw and the current exhibition “Samaritans since 1944”.
The permanent exhibition of the museum (Dorfmuseum) is dedicated to the subject areas of living and households around 1900 with furniture, wall decorations, clothes, household appliances, tools, machines and sewing machine collections. Another focal point is village development.
The museum testifies to the former life of the village and the history of the region.
The museum (musée gruérien) shows and highlights the cultural heritage of the Gruyère region. The exhibition includes authentic artefacts, the wood industry, farmhouses and agriculture, city planning models and reconstructions and the Gruyère cheese industry. The museum also features a collection of 61 photographs (daguerreotypes) by the Frenchman Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892). The museum … Read more » “Museum of Gruyère”
The museum shows Works by Franz Gertsch (1930) . His woodcuts and monumental paintings are the core business of the permanent exhibition, amongst others his Medici, Four seasons (Die vier Jahreszeiten), Bromelia, Maria and Guadeloupe.
Schloss Burgdorf is the biggest castle of the zahringian dynastie and was built in the twelfth century. The romanesque room of the knights, the chapel and the tapestries (14th century) are of particular relevance. The museum presents the culture and history of the city and its region. The museum also houses the gold museum (Helvetische … Read more » “Burgdorf Castle”
The museum shows part of the work of Bernhard Luginbühl (1929-2011).
The museum holds the most comprehensive collection of hictorical, artistic and highly original documents, pictures and objects from six centuries connected to Switzerland’s hero of freedom, William Tell. It also features an important collection of works by Basel painter Ernst Stückelberg (1831–1903), who had put up his studio in Bürglen and painted his four great … Read more » “Tell-Museum”
The museum presents an exhibition of agricultural equipment and tools.
The museum shows the cultural heritage, ethnography and history of the Muggio valley.