The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The collection exhibits archaeological finds mainly from the Neolithicum, Bronze Age and the Roman Times. The methodology and practice of archaeology are also being dealt with. One of the top pieces is the Golden bowl (Goldbecher) of Eschenz (a. 2400 BC).
The museum in the castle (historisches Museum Thurgau) focuses on the fifteenth century after 1415 and the coming into being of the cantons.
The exhibition focuses on the flora and fauna in the region.
The Museum of Archaeology (Museum für Archäologie) presents a cross-section from pile-dwelling cultures – a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011 – to Napoleon’s battlefield in Canton Thurgau. Excavation methods above and below water, cooperation with neighbouring disciplines such as botany, zoology or dendrochronology are also vividly conveyed.
The permanent exhibition includes history, domestic and agricultural implements and tools, traditional costumes and archaeological finds.
The museum (Saurier Museum) shows a complete skeleton of the dinosaur Plateosaurus, many fossils and a film about the discovery history of the Frick dinosaurs and gives information about the life and extinction of the dinosaurs.
The museum (Schweizerisches Militärmuseum) displays tanks, armoured infantry fighting vehicles, artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, anti-tank guns and vehicles from the Swiss army and foreign armies, especially from the 20th century.
The Museum (Museum am Dorfplatz) is home to a print collection in 1972. Prints and watercolours depict scenes of the village between 1750 and 1900.
The museum (Museo delle dogane svizerro) presents the tasks performed by Customs and explains the different functions of the Swiss border and the Swiss Border Guard as they are today and as they were in the past.
The castle is more than eight hundred years old. The last renovation took place in the nineteenth century, including the planning of the rose garden. The castle is open to the public and shows the way of living of the elite of the city of Lucerne in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries