Museums and art galleries

The village museum is dedicated to the history of the districts of Langnau and Mehlsecken in the municipality of Reiden.  

The collection consists of 160 works by 47 artists. They form a representative cross-section of the artistic work of the first half of the 20th century in Switzerland.  

The museum provides an insight into contemporary art and culture.

The Culture Business Parc offers artists a platform to exhibit their works.  

The workshop (Werkstatt Reitnau) has an extensive collection of valuable machines, equipment and printing presses that bring to life the history of letterpress printing and duplication technology.

The fortress is located on the north side of the village Reuenthal. It was built from spring 1937 until April 1939. In several rooms there is an exhibition about the armament and equipment of the Swiss army and foreign forces from the Second and First World War.

The museum exhibits archaelogical finds from Roman times onwards, the medieval history, paintings (18th century), a 19th century residence, religious art and pays special attention to the Fricktal.    

The museum (Spielzeugmuseum) presents wooden toys,  dolls and mechanical toys of all kinds.  The exhibition includes toys from the eighteenth century onward, cars, railways, magic lanterns, clay animals, dolls, stoves, shops and doll houses.    

The collection of the foundation (Fondation Beyeler) comprises more than 400 works by modern and contemporary artists. The museum is famous for this collection and the restoration- and research projects of works from this period (among others paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri Rousseau, Ernst Warhol, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst).  

The museum’s subject is death and burial culture.