Museums and art galleries

The Museum shows the local and regional history of the Berner Jura, ethnographical objects, the watchmaking industry, science, and Kunst.  

The museum looks back on the history of the company and production since 1832 and shows chronographs, watches and navigation instruments.

The Collection of the museum (Musée des Arts et des Sciences) shows archaeological findings from the prehistory and the Roman era, ethnographical objects from the region, fossils, a rich collection of local minerals and stones, around hundred paintings by European masters and of the ‘School of Sainte-Croix’ and gives an overview of the rich industrial … Read more » “Museum of Arts and Sciences”

The museum (Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art) in the capital of music boxes shows the fascinating world of cylinder music boxes, disc music ( ancestor to the jukebox), orchestrions and mechanical pianos, street organs, singing birds and the famous “station musix boxes” with their dancing dolls. The machine “Pushkin” can also be seen, the … Read more » “CIMA”

The Arenenberg Castle was home to Hortense de Beauharnais, adoptive daughter and sister-in-law of napoleon I, from 1817 on. She completely redesigned Arenenberg in the French fashion. Even the interior was decorated with wallpapers, furniture, statues, and paintings commemorating Napoleon I. Her son Louis Napoléon, the future Emperor Napoleon III, grew up there. In 1906, … Read more » “Napoleon Museum”

The museum commemorates the first wireless telegraphic connection that Marconi established in 1895. This was in the village of Salvan. The museum shows the development afterwards, in which the rise of the radio occupies a central place.      

The Chesa Planta houses a museum of living culture of the Engadine patricians of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as an important Rhaeto-Romanic library and is a centre of Rhaeto-Romanic culture.

La Tuor (the Tower)  is a centre for the history, architecture, crafts and design of the region of Engadine.

The museun (Talmuseum Samnaun) shows a collection and tells the story  about  daily life of a peasant family in the Samnaun Valley from 1600 to around 1900. The museum is housed in an old farmhouse from 1658.

The Museum of Cultural History of Misox and Calancatal (Graubünden) focuses on the (cultural) history and archaeology of the region and contains a permanent exhibition on the many Misox architects, builders and artists from the 16th to the 18th centuries and their Baroque works of art.