List of museums in Switzerland

This list contains Swiss museums sorted by location. According to the museum statistics of the Federal Office of Culture (BAK), the 1111 Swiss museums recorded over 12 million admissions in 2015.

A.

Museum Prestegg, Altstätten, St. Gallen

Plank frame house in Arbon, Thurgau

Musée romain d'Avenches, Vaud

• Aarau
  • Aargauer Kunsthaus
  • Forum Schlossplatz in the Haus zum Schlossgarten
  • City museum in the Schlössli
  • Naturama
• Aarburg
  • Aarburg Local History Museum
• Aathal sea ​​trenches
  • Aathal Dinosaur Museum
• Aristocratic cause
  • Fire Brigade Museum
• Aeugstertal
  • Pegasus Small World Toy Museum
• Agno TI
  • Museo della ferrovia Lugano-Ponte Tresa
  • Museo Plebano with artifacts from the Anerubda culture
• Aigle VD
  • Château d'Aigle
  • Musée de la Vigne et du Vin
• Airolo
  • Forte Airolo
  • Museo Nazionale del San Gottardo
• Albertswil - Willisau
  • Swiss Museum of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology
• Altdorf UR
  • House for Art Uri
  • Historical Museum Uri
• Altenrhein SG
  • Aviation Museum Altenrhein
• Altstätten
  • Historisches Museum Prestegg ( Museum Prestegg on Commons)
• Amriswil
  • Log house
  • Carriage collection
  • Local museum
  • Mühlebach School Museum
• Andermatt
  • Talmuseum Urseren (also: Talmuseum Ursern)
• Appenzell
  • Ziegelhütte art gallery
  • Art Museum Appenzell (formerly Museum Liner Appenzell)
  • Museum in the Blue House
  • Museum liner
• Arbon
  • historical Museum
  • Art gallery Arbon
  • Saurer Museum
• Arlesheim
  • Forum Würth Arlesheim
  • Trotte local museum
• Ascona
  • Museo Castello San Materno - Fondazione per la cultura Kurt e Barbara Alten
  • Museo communale d'arte moderna Ascona
  • Fondazione Ignaz e Mischa Epper (also: Museo Epper) with works by Ignaz Epper (1892–1969)
  • Percorso museale of Monte Verità
• Au ZH
  • Viticulture Museum on Lake Zurich
• Aubonne VD
  • Musée du bois (Arboretum)
• Auenstein AG
  • Witch Museum of Switzerland
• Augst
  • Augusta Raurica
  • Roman Museum Augst
• Avenches
  • Musée Romain in the district of the ancient city of Aventicum

B.

• Baden AG
  • Historical Museum Baden
  • Langmatt Museum
  • Swiss Children's Museum
• Ballenberg
  • Ballenberg open-air museum
• Basel
  • see main article: Basel museums
• Bergün
  • Albula Railway Museum
  • Local museum - with model railroad layout for the Albula Railway , educational trail directly on the original route
• Bern
  • Swiss Alpine Museum
  • Einsteinhaus Bern
  • Salvation Army Museum
  • Historical Museum Bern
  • Museum for Communication Bern (Postal Museum)
  • Kunsthalle Bern
  • Art Museum Bern
  • Swiss Literary Archives in the Swiss National Library
  • Natural History Museum Bern
  • Paul Klee Center
  • Psychiatry Museum (Bern)
  • Swiss Rifle Museum Bern
  • Swiss theater collection
  • Bern School Museum in Köniz
• Beromünster
  • House to the Dolder
  • Beromünster Castle Museum
• Biel / Bienne
  • Center Muller
  • Center PasquART BIEL
  • NMB New Museum Biel
  • Omega Museum
• Boudry
  • Musée de l'Areuse
  • Musée de la vigne et du vin
• Brugg
  • Vindonissa Museum of the Pro Vindonissa Society
  • Brugg local history museum
  • Stäbli-Stübli in the local museum
• Bubikon
  • Ritterhaus Bubikon
• Burgdorf
  • Franz Gertsch Museum
  • Burgdorf Castle Museum
  • Helvetic Gold Museum

C.

• Chiasso
  • max-Museo
• Chur
  • Bündner Art Museum
  • Bündner Naturmuseum
  • Rhaetian Museum
  • Kulturforum Würth Chur
  • Chur Wine Museum
  • Sewing machine museum
• Cologny
  • Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Fondation Martin Bodmer
• Corsier-sur-Vevey
  • Chaplin's World

D.

• Davos
  • Kirchner Museum Davos
  • Local museum
  • Toy museum
  • Winter sports museum
• Degersheim
  • Dreamfactory (magic worlds)

E.

• Engelberg
  • Engelberg Valley Museum
• Erstfeld
  • Historical Heritage Foundation of the SBB (Railway Museum)
• Estavayer-le-Lac
  • Frog Museum

F.

• Flims
  • Yellow House (Flims)
• Frauenfeld
  • Museum of Archeology Thurgau
• Freiburg im Üechtland / Friborg
  • Natural History Museum Freiburg ( Musée d'histoire naturelle Friborg )
  • Espace Jean Tinguely Niki de Saint Phalle
  • Museum of Art and History Freiburg ( Musée d'art et d'histoire Friborg )
  • Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain , Kunsthalle Freiburg
  • Musée Suisse de la marionette
  • Musée Suisse de la machine à coudre
  • Gutenberg Museum
  • Musée Bible et Orient of the University of Miséricorde

G

• Gelfingen
  • Heidegg Castle
• Geneva
  • Musée d'art moderne et contemporain
  • Musée d'art moderne, Petit Palais
  • Ariana Museum
  • Rath Museum
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
  • International Museum of the Reformation
• Glarus
  • Kunsthaus Glarus
• Grenchen
  • Art house
• Gruyère FR
  • Gruyeres Castle
  • HR Giger Museum
• Grindelwald
  • Local museum

H

• Hold
  • Museum Wasseramt
• Horgen
  • Agent house, living and porcelain museum
  • Käpfnach Mine Museum and visitor mine
  • Local museum Sust
  • Visitor center and museum Sihlwald

I.

• Ilanz
  • Museum Regiunal Surselva
• Interlaken
  • Tourismuseum (formerly the tourist museum for the Jungfrau region )

J

• Jegenstorf
  • Jegenstorf Castle
• Jenins
  • Greisinger Museum

K

• Kreuzlingen
  • Museum Rosenegg (town history)
  • Maritime Museum (shipping, fishing, etc.)
• Kriens
  • Swiss Chess Museum
  • Museum in the Bellpark
  • Military museum
• Küsnacht (ZH)
  • Küsnacht local museum

L.

• Langenbruck
  • Sculpture at Schoenthal Foundation, in Schönthal Abbey
• Langenthal
  • Langenthal Museum
• Langnau in the Emmental
  • Chüechlihus, local history museum for the Upper Emmental
• La Tour-de-Peilz
  • Swiss game museum
• Lausanne
  • Collection de l'art brut
  • Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne
• Lenzburg
  • Stapferhaus Lenzburg
  • Lenzburg Castle
  • Museum Burghalde Lenzburg
• Liestal
  • Museum.BL
  • Poet and City Museum Liestal
  • Harmonium Museum
  • To the colorful S
• Lugano
  • Museo d'arte moderna
  • Museo delle Culture
  • Swiss Customs Museum
• Lucerne
  • Lucerne Art Museum
  • Lucerne Nature Museum
  • Rosengart Collection
  • Swiss Museum of Transport
  • Richard Wagner Museum Tribschen
  • Lucerne Glacier Garden with Lion Monument
  • Historical Museum Lucerne

M.

• Melide
  • Swiss miniature
• Mendrisio
  • Galleria Baumgartner ( model railways )
  • Museo d'arte (art museum)
• Meride
  • Monte San Giorgio Fossil Museum
• Morges
  • Vaud Military Museum Morges (Musée militaire vaudois)
• Möriken-Wildegg
  • Wildegg Castle
• Munchenstein
  • Electricity Museum
  • Frog Museum (Münchenstein)
  • Mill Museum
  • Carriage Museum
  • Schaulager
• Murten
  • Museum Murten
  • Railway and Collectors Museum in Courlevon
• Muttenz
  • Kunsthaus Baselland

N

• Naters
  • Simplon fortress Naters

O

• Olten
  • Historical Museum Olten
  • Art Museum Olten
  • Olten Nature Museum
  • World of securities
  • Archaeological Museum Canton Solothurn

P

• Pfäffikon SZ
  • Seedamm cultural center

R.

• Rapperswil-Jona
  • Old factory - curator
  • Art (stuff) house
  • Jona local museum
  • Poland Museum in Rapperswil
  • Rapperswil City Museum

• Riehen
  • Beyeler Foundation
  • Toy museum

• Romont
  • Vitromusée Romont (Museum of Stained Glass)

S.

• Sachseln
  • Museum of Brother Klaus Sachseln
• Sainte-Croix
  • Musée Baud SA
  • CIMA museum
  • Musée des Arts et des Sciences
• Sarnen
  • Historical Museum Obwalden
• Schaffhausen
  • All Saints' Day Museum
  • Halls for New Art (1982-2014)
  • Stemmler Museum
  • Museum in the armory
  • IWC watch museum
• Schleitheim
  • Schleitheim Gypsum Museum
  • Thermal Museum Juliomagus
• Schwyz
  • Federal Letter Museum
  • Forum of Swiss History Schwyz
• Seengen
  • Hallwyl Castle
• Seewen
  • Museum of Music Automatons
• Sempach
  • Town hall museum Sempach
• Sissach
  • Executioner's Museum
• Solothurn
  • Historisches Museum Blumenstein
  • Solothurn Art Museum
  • Old Armory Museum
  • Solothurn Nature Museum
• Spiez
  • Viticulture and local history museum (Spiez)
  • Spiez Castle
• Stäfa
  • Museum of color
• Stone at the Rhein
  • St. Georgen Monastery
  • Lindwurm Museum
• St. Gallen
  • Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen
  • Kunsthalle St. Gallen
  • Art Museum St. Gallen
  • Museum in the warehouse
  • St. Gallen Nature Museum
  • St. Gallen Abbey Library
  • Textile Museum St. Gallen
  • Point Jaune Museum
• St. Moritz
  • Engadine Museum
  • Mili Weber House , "Fairytale House " by Mili Weber
  • Segantini Museum
  • Berry Museum
• St. Niklaus
  • Mountain Guide Museum
• Stans
  • Winkelriedhaus
  • Salt magazine
• Stansstad
  • Fürigen Artillery Works
• Hours (BE)
  • Saner Foundation
• Steffisburg
  • Villa Schüpbach
• Sursee
  • Museum of the Swiss Capuchin Province
  • City Museum Sankturbanhof

T

• Teufen AR
  • Mine Man Collection
• Turbenthal
  • Turbenthal local museum
• Tuna
  • Art Museum Thun
  • Wocher panorama

V

• Vevey
  • Alimentarium - Museum of Nutrition
• Vaz / Obervaz
  • Local museum Obervaz / Museum local Vaz (in Zorten )

W.

• Waedenswil
  • Au wine museum
• Wallisellen
  • Wallisellen local museum
• Wartau
  • Artillery fortress Magletsch
• Vaud Military Museum, Morges
• Warth, Canton of Thurgau
  • Art Museum Thurgau
  • Ittingen Charterhouse
• Windisch
  • Schürhof Museum
  • Vindonissa Museum
  • Koenigsfelden
• Winterthur
  • Winterthur Photo Museum
  • Photo Foundation Switzerland
  • Center for Photography
  • Winterthur Trade Museum
  • Winterthur Art Museum
  • Winterthur Nature Museum
  • Museum Oskar Reinhart
  • Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz"
  • Technorama - Technical Museum of Switzerland (a Science Center )
  • Villa Flora (Winterthur) - French painting of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Coin cabinet and antique collection of the city of Winterthur
  • International Tree Archive
  • Museum Briner and Kern
  • Kellenberger clock collection
  • Kunsthalle Winterthur
  • Lindengut Museum
  • Hegi Castle
  • Mörsburg Castle , Winterthur- Stadel
  • Historical archive of the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM)

Z

• Zermatt
  • Matterhorn Museum "Zermatlantis"
• Zernez
  • National Park House
• Zofingen
  • museum
• train
  • Cantonal Museum of Prehistory
  • Zug Castle - Museum of the cultural history of the city and canton of Zug
  • Kunsthaus Zug
• Zurich

  see main article: Zurich museums

See also

• List of car museums in Switzerland
• Musée imaginaire des migrations , virtual museum

Web links

• www.museums.ch: The platform for museums in Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BAK museum statistics: As popular as the cinema - Swiss museums are doing well In: SRF of April 18, 2017
2. ^ Museum Murten
3. ↑ Courlevon Railway and Collectors Museum
4. ↑ Simplon Fortress Naters