Museums and art galleries

The museum in the castle is dedicated to the local history.  

The museum exhibits exceptional musical pieces crafted between 1750 and 1940. In our first room there are music boxes, automata, clocks, singing birds, animated pictures and gramophones as well as other accessories, tools and souvenirs of the time period. In the second room, one can admire the grandeur of larger pieces while listening to the … Read more » “Music-Box Museum Baud”

The museum’s collections contain many objects related to daily life, the particular origin of the present city, and the role of watchmaking. The best-represented periods are the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. The permanent exhibition focuses on the history of La Chaux-de-Fonds, its planning, and its most famous citizen, Le … Read more » “Historical Museum La Chaux-de-Fonds”

The museum (Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds) exhibits a broad collection of paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in particular the famous collection of René et Madeleine Junod (19th-century European masters), Léopold Robert, Art Suisse, le Corbusier, Art Nouveau and style Sapin, applied arts and the collections Olivier Mosset and Erwin Oberwiller. … Read more » “Museum of Art of La Chaux-de-Fonds”

The museum (musée de l’horlogerie) presents the measurement of time from antiquity to the present day. The collection offers a wonderful historical overview of the evolution of technology and the art of measuring time. The themes covered are the calendar, time and daily life and work, the aesthetics of the watch, and clocks craftsmanship and … Read more » “Watchmaking Museum La Chaux-de-Fonds”

An information center (Espace de l’urbanisme horloger) to discover and understand the UNESCO townplanning heritage of the city and the role of the watch making industry in the mid nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

The mission of the museum (musée paysan et artisanal)is to preserve and promote the artisanal and agricultural heritage of the region.  

The permanent exhibition of the museum (musée des civilisations de l’Islam)presents the culture and history of Islam on the basis of six themes, arranged chronologically.

The Maison blanche depicts the pioneering architecture of the first half of the 20th century and the artistic development of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier,1887-1965) in particular. The carefully restored Maison blanche is also a place to place Le Corbusier’s works in artistic and cultural-historical perspective.  

The museum presents the rich past of the region, the private and public life of the city, and the large hall houses the rich loot from the Burgundian wars (1476).