Engadine Museum
The Engadine Museum in St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine is a folkloric local museum .
Location and importance
It is located on Via dal Bagn 39 on the border between the traditional parts of the village Bad and Dorf and is one of the first exponents of the native style in Graubünden .
history
Richard Campell, the founder and builder of the museum, wanted to create a special house for his collection of Graubünden and Engadine furniture and household appliances. The floor plan and external structure should correspond to the typical Engadine house and he wanted to have historical rooms built into the individual rooms, which he could save for posterity for sale. He wanted to make the house accessible to the public as a museum of cultural history.
Its builder Nicolaus Hartmann jun. built the house between 1905 and 1906 in the typical Engadine style, incorporating older structures: the bay window, coat of arms and corridor grille on the first floor come from the demolished Salis house in Turtach in Celerina , the wooden gate with baroque ornaments with a forged lock from Zernez .
On the side there are striking arcades based on the model of the old monastery Chà Gronda in Unter- Scuol , today's Lower Engadine Museum .
In 1911 the Engadine Museum was bought with funds from all over Switzerland and transferred to the foundation of the same name.
Museum rooms
In addition to the rooms of the classic Engadine house, the Engadine Museum presents in permanent and special exhibitions the transformation of the Engadine high valley from a purely agricultural region into a stronghold of international tourism in the 19th century .
ground floor
- 1: Sulèr: Engadine trestle sledge
- 2: Engadin farmhouse parlor from Zuoz , mid-17th century.
- 3: Kitchen: fire stove
First floor
- 4: room with spinning wheels from Brail , 1580
- 5: State room ( Stüva sur ), Zuoz farmhouse, 17th century
- 6: Small corridor: furniture
- 7: State aristocratic family à Marca, Mesocco , 1621
- 8: Copy of the vaulted hall from S-chanf , mid-17th century.
- 9: Visconti-Venosta State Hall, Grosio ( Valtellina ), early 17th century.
Second floor
- 10: Copy of Corridor Planta - House Samedan , 1589
- 11: Engadin room, 18th century
- 12: Late Gothic bedroom, Presanz : four-poster bed from the time of the plague around 1575
- 13: Late Gothic dining room in a hostel, Savognin , 1579
- 14: Pantry ( Chamineda )
- 15: Natural history cabinet of patrician houses
- 16: Room for temporary exhibitions
- 17: Roof corridor: Engadin traditional costumes and textiles
- 18: High Gothic hall, episcopal domain administration, Savognin, before 1300
Basement ("Cuort")
- The prehistoric spring version of the St. Mauritius spring from 1411 BC Chr. Has been in the Forum Paracelsus in St. Moritz-Bad since July 2014 .
literature
- Nott Caviezel: The Engadine Museum in St. Moritz. ( Swiss Art Guide , No. 537). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1993, ISBN 978-3-85782-537-8 .
Web links
- The Engadine Museum on graubuendenkultur.ch
- The official website of the Engadine Museum
- The ceramics collection of the museum in CERAMICA CH - National Ceramic Inventory of Switzerland
Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 38.3 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 7" E ; CH1903: seven hundred eighty-three thousand nine hundred and seventy / 151,994