History and cultural heritage of Switzerland

Swiss Alpine Museum Bern
Bern

ALPS is all about people and mountains. It focuses on issues wherever society is on the move. There might not be any easy answers, but we still need to talk about things: about the environment, nature...

110 historic buildings from all regions of Switzerland, over 200 farm animals and craftsmanship from days gone by: at Ballenberg you experience Switzerland with all your senses.
Hofstetten bei Brienz

110 historic buildings from all regions of Switzerland, over 200 farm animals and craftsmanship from days gone by: At the Swiss Open-Air Museum Ballenberg you experience Switzerland with all your...

Glaubenswelten des Mittelalters. © Historisches Museum Basel, Foto: Natascha Jansen
Basel

The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and...

Basel Historical Museum – Haus zum Kirschgarten
Basel

The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and...

Basel Historical Museum – Museum of Music
Basel

The Basel Historical Museum with its three sites is widely regarded as the most important museum of cultural history on the Upper Rhine. It collects, conserves, records and researches objects and...

Bernisches Historisches Museum / Einstein Museum
Bern

The Bernisches Historisches Museum is one of Switzerland’s most important history museums. Its collection is a cultural repository of the history of Bern and the world. Since the museum’s foundation...

Dichter- und Stadtmuseum
Liestal

The museum of poets and local history in the heart of the old town ofLiestalinvites guests to get to know poets and artists of the region in the three-storey house. Permanent exhibitions offer various...

Dreiländermuseum / Musée des Trois Pays
Lörrach

The Three-Countries Museum, just a few kilometres from Basel, has made the Three Countries Corner its theme. In the permanent exhibition, visitors can view the history and present of this border...

Fricktaler Museum
Rheinfelden (CH)

This diverse collection presents exhibits ranging from archaeology and finds from the Fricktal region to medieval handcrafts and former professions and workplaces. The city models and water colour...

Jüdisches Museum der Schweiz
Basel

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland (Kornhausgasse 8) shows one of the best collections of Judaica in central Europe. It exhibits valuable items depicting religious and everyday life and aims to...

Königsfelden Abbey, Museum Aargau
Windisch

Welcome to the Museum Aargau at Königsfelden Abbey Once you enter this mystical location on what was formerly Roman soil, you will walk in the footsteps of a powerful world dynasty that once produced...

Basler Papiermühle
Basel

The Basel Paper Mill is located in a house in which paper has been produced for more than 500 years. The mill can be found in the idyllic mill district of St. Alban. In 2011 the museum was renovated...

Museum Kleines Klingental
Basel

The museum is located in the original medieval building of the former Dominican Cloister Klingental on the Klein-Basel bank of the Rhine. In these historical rooms Romanesque and Gothic sculptures...

Museum of Music Automatons - the Salon Bleu.
Seewen

The Seewen Museum of Music Automatons houses one of the world's largest and best-known collections of Swiss cylinder and disc music boxes, clocks and jewellery containing musical mechanisms and other...

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Liestal

The most important business in the city and region of Baselused to be the silk ribbon industry. Since the 16th century silk ribbons from Basel were considered as top-notch standard in international...

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The Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel
Basel

In the centre of the old town of Basel you can find the house ‘Zum Sessel'. It is the former residence and workshop of the printer Johannes Froben, where his friends Paracelsus, Erasmus, Holbein and...

Rehmann-Museum
Laufenburg

The unique museum of sculptures by Erwin Rehmann was founded in 2001 in Laufenburg, canton Aargau. It is complemented by a large garden full of sculptures. The museum seeks to maintain and present the...

Lenzburg Castle, Museum Aargau
Lenzburg

As visitors cross the drawbridge into the castle courtyard, they are immersed in the 1,000-year history of Lenzburg Castle. The imposing hilltop fortification was once a count’s residence, then the...