Museums and art galleries

The Espace Ballon presents ballooning in all its facets.

The centre in the Castle (Château Champ-Pittet) offers events and excursions and organizes exhibitions and festivals with nature as subject.

The museum presents the graphic art of Max Huber (1919-1992) and offers temporary exhibits of contemporary graphic artists.

The museum presents the agricultural tools and objects of daily rural life in Val-de-Ruz.

The Founder of the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (1951) was Martin Bodmer (1899 – 1971). He  was a great bibliophile and collector of books and manuscripts. He bequeathed his library in Cologny to the Foundation (Fondation Martin Bodmer) in 1971. The collection contains more than 150,000 items from 80 different cultures. The core collection of the library … Read more » “Martin Bodmer Foundation”

The museum presents the history, its charitable activities and the history and life in the village of Compesières.  

The Lombarde Tower  (la Tour Lombarde) presents contemporary exhibitions of paintings, sculpture and other works of art by artists from the region and abroad. The tower is part of the castle complex of Conthey, that was a powerful sovereignty between 1250 and 1400 but slipped into oblivion after 1475. The tower is named after one … Read more » “The Lombarde Tower”

The museum presents the original sleeping- and dining rooms, furniture, documents, local craftmanship and collections of music instruments, watches,  clocks and weapons.

The castle has known famous inhabitants, including Jacques Necker and his daughter Germaine, the famous Madame de Staël. The castle also has a collection of textiles, inlays, books and murals.

The museum is dedicated to pyrotehnics, fireworks and l´explosif and their history.