Museums and art galleries

The Foundation has an extensive collection of local historical objects

The museum in the once smallest republic in the world (1745) presents this history and a permanent exhibition about the writer Josef Maria Camenzind and the musician and composer Benno Ammann.

The museum (Museo di Leventina) focuses on the regional history, life and arts.  

The museum known as La Congiunta shows reliefs and sculptures by the artist Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012) from the period 1950 to 1991. These works exemplify the central role played by the human figure in Josephsohn’s art and document all the types that the artist himself used to classify his work: standing, seated and reclining figures, … Read more » “La Congiunta”

The museum houses a comprehensive exhibition on the life and work of the poet Gottfried Keller (1819-1890).

The village is a reconstruction of the prehistoric Neolithic architecture and offers insight into the lives of the first inhabitants of the Plateau. Three houses and a storage room form the backdrop for the information and various activities, demonstrations and workshops.  

The museum (Bergsturzmuseum) documents one of the greatest natural disasters in Switzerland through a wide variety of documents, information and objects.  

The museum is dedicated to the collection, archiving, research and performance of folk music from the Appenzell and Toggenburg region (Säntis).  

The museum (Dorfmuseum) presents the Zschokke collection (by village priest Achilles Zschokke, priest from 1848 to 1896), tobacco processing, cooperage and carpentry tools and pictorial documents about Alt-Gontenschwil and special exhibitions.      

The museum tells the history of the castle.