The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum of interior furnishings in the Castle of Hünegg (Schloss Hünegg) covers the second half of the 19th century, Historismus and Modern Style. The castle was built from 1861 – 1863. The Loire castles Blois, Chenonceau, and Azay-Le Rideau served as a pattern. The interior has remained unchanged since 1900.
The museum takes you on a journey through the past and present of gastronomy, food and drink culture and culinary art.
Johanna Louise Heusser was born in Hirzel in 1827. She became known worldwide as Johanna Spyri with “Heidi” in 1880. The exhibition illuminates the life of this woman.
The museum presents and documents the local history of Hochdorf.
The museum shows historical rural edifices from all parts of Switzerland by taking them apart piece by piece and reassembling them for everyone to visit and as a basis for scientific enquiry.
The purpose of the Foundation (Turmstiftung Schloss Holligen) is to preserve the residential tower as a historical monument. The castle was built around 1150. The Foundation also organises expositions and other cultural events in this medieval donjon.
The museum displays historical, cultural and other objects and documents of Horgen and the region.
The museum displays 18th century living culture of a patrician family and a collection of Zurich porcelain.
The landscape, formed by glaciers and rivers over thousands of years, has been transformed by agriculture and, more recently, by gravel extraction. The exhibition of the museum (Ortsmuseum) shows this process up to and including the recultivation and return to nature of the gravel quarries with areas for nature conservation, viticulture and arable farming. The … Read more » “Village Museum Hüntwangen”
The museum (Museum Regiunal Surselva) in Ilanz (canton of Graubünden) shows the pre-industrial society of the region. The permanent exhibition in the historic Casa Carniec shows the area’s culture, history and life on seven floors and how the inhabitants organised their existence in the family and village community. The museum building, the Case Carniec, was … Read more » “Surselva Regional Museum”