Museums and art galleries

The museum (Musée d’art de Pully) shows works of modern and contemporary art and presents the history of the region.  

The museum presents documents relating to the life of General Henri Guisan (1874-1960) and his career.  

The museum (Ortsmuseum) presents (cultural) history, life in the countryside, agriculture and crafts, flax processing, documents and photographs.

The Züst Gallery (Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst) is a centre for studying art of the period from the Renaissance to the 19th century. A former parish house provides an appropriate setting for paintings by the major artists of Lombardy and Ticino from the 17th century to the 19th, including Giovanni Serodine, Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, Antonio … Read more » “Gallery Züst”

The Breny-Haus from 1492, the tower house and a new building house the exhibition about the history of the city Rapperswil-Jona. Precious art and simple objects of farming and crafts, city development and residential areas are among the themes of the show in the museum (Stadtmuseum Rapperswil-Jona).

The Museum of the Polish culture and history occupies the second floor of the castle in Rapperswil.  The museum shows the centuries old history of the Polish – Swiss relations, the activities of the Swiss in Poland and the Polish in Switzerland. It shows the Polish traditions, the history of fights for independence and faith, … Read more » “Museum of Polish Culture and History”

The collection presents works by contemporary Swiss painters, architects, sculptures and other artists.

The Tree Museum exhibits trees from the collection of Enzo Enea, the Swiss landscape architect.  The collection is solely composed of varieties which belong to the Swiss climate zone. The Tree Museum combines landscape, botany, art, architecture, and design. The Museum features approximately 50 trees representing more than 25 varieties- several examples of which are … Read more » “Enea Tree Museum”

The cities Rapperwil and Jona (Canton of St. Gallen) were united in 2007 after a political divorce of more than twohundred years. Both towns share a common history and cultural heritage of thousands of years and were a political unit until the Napoleonic occupation and were separated in 1798 as a result of the Helvetic Republic. The … Read more » “Kulturkasten Rapperswil-Jona”

A guided tour through the exhibition documents in detail the development of the bicycle and offers a comprehensive insight into its technical development, from the iron-tyred velocipede to the tricycle, the high wheel and the modern bicycle.