List of museums in Switzerland
This is a list of museums in Switzerland, sorted by canton and city / municipality.[1][2] Included are Swiss natural history museums, science museums, transport museums, railway museums, military museums, art museums, ethnographic museums and chocolate museums, among others.
Canton of Aargau
- Dinosaur museum Frick[3]
- Museum Kloster Muri
Canton of Appenzell-Ausserrhoden
Canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden
- Appenzeller Alpenbitter[4]
Canton of Basel-Stadt
- Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig
- Cartoonmuseum Basel – Centre for Narrative Art
- Dollhouse Museum
- Historical Museum Basel
- Jewish Museum of Switzerland
- Kunsthalle Basel
- Kunstmuseum Basel
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- Museum of Cultures
- Museum Tinguely
- Music Museum
- Natural History Museum of Basel
- Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel
- Skulpturhalle Basel
- Swiss Architecture Museum
- Swiss Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing
Canton of Basel-Landschaft
Canton of Bern
- Art museum Thun
- Panzermuseum Thun
Canton of Fribourg
Canton of Geneva
- Barbier-Mueller Museum
- Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
- Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine
- Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
- Institut et Musée Voltaire
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
- MAMCO
- Musée Ariana
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
- Musée d'ethnographie de Genève
- Natural History Museum of Geneva
- Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
- Musée Rath
Canton of the Grisons
Canton of Jura
Canton of Lucerne
Canton of Nidwalden
Canton of Neuchâtel
Canton of Schaffhausen
- Hallen für Neue Kunst (closed)
- Museum Stemmler[7]
- Museum zu Allerheiligen
Canton of Schwyz
Canton of Solothurn
Canton of St. Gallen
- Dreamfactory & World of Wonders[8]
- Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
- Textile Museum St. Gallen[10]
- Natural History Museum in St. Gallen[11]
Canton of Thurgau
- Arbon Castle (Historic Museum Arbon)
- Arenenberg (Napoleon Museum)
Canton of Ticino
Canton of Valais
Canton of Vaud
Canton of Zug
Canton of Zurich
- Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz"
- Oskar Reinhart Museum
- Kunstmuseum Winterthur
- Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich
- FIFA Museum
- Foundation E.G. Bührle
- Haus Konstruktiv
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
- MoneyMuseum
- Musée Visionnaire
- Museum of Design
- Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich
- No Show Museum
- North America Native Museum
- Pavillon Le Corbusier[13]
- Rietberg Museum
- Swiss National Museum
- Uhrenmuseum Beyer
- Uhrenmuseum zum Rösli
- Zunfthaus zur Meisen
- Zurich Tram Museum
See also
- List of botanical gardens in Switzerland
- List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
- List of heritage railways and funiculars in Switzerland
- Lists of tourist attractions in Switzerland
- Long Night of Museums
References
- ^ "Museums". myswitzerland.com. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
- ^ "Eine Plattform getragen von zwei Verbänden: ICOM Schweiz, Verband der Museen der Schweiz". museums.ch (in German). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
- ^ "Sauriermuseum Frick" [Dinosaur museum Frick] (in German). Retrieved 6 August 2025.
- ^ "Visit to the Alpenbitter works". www.myswitzerland.com. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ^ "Much more than a chocolate museum". Camille Bloch. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ^ "Maison Cailler Visit". Cailler. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ^ "Museum Stemmler". Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
- ^ "Dreamfactory präsentiert" (in German). Dreamfactory & World of Wonders. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
- ^ "Chocolarium". Maestrani. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ^ "Textilmuseum St. Gallen". Textilmuseum St. Gallen. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "Welcome to the Natural History Museum in St.Gallen". Naturmuseum St. Gallen. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
- ^ Jigme Garne, Elisabetta Antonelli (20 November 2014). "Technorama vermehrt auf Sponsoring angewiesen" (in German). Der Landbote. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ^ Pascal Ritter (29 May 2016). "Streit um Corbusier-Haus: Respektlose Namenstilgung empört Museumsgründerin" (in German). Limmattaler Zeitung. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
External links
Media related to Museums in Switzerland at Wikimedia Commons
- Museums.ch (in German, French and Italian)