List of museums in Switzerland

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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

Aarau

• Aargauer Kunsthaus

Baden

• Museum Langmatt

Frick

• Dinosaur museum Frick  [ de ] ^[3]

Full-Reuenthal

• Swiss Military Museum

Muri

• Museum Kloster Muri

Canton of Appenzell-Ausserrhoden

Heiden

• Henry Dunant Museum

Teufen

• Null Stern Hotel

Canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden

Appenzell

• Appenzeller Alpenbitter  [ de ] ^[4]

Canton of Basel-Stadt

Basel

Main article: Museums in Basel

• 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

Augst

• Augusta Raurica

Münchenstein

• Frog Museum
• Watermill Museum Brüglingen

Canton of Bern

Bern

Main article: List of museums in Bern

Brienz

• Ballenberg

Burgdorf

• Museum Franz Gertsch

Courtelary

• Camille Bloch Discovery World ^[5]

Thun

• Art museum Thun  [ de ]
• Panzermuseum Thun

Canton of Fribourg

Bulle

• Musée gruérien

Broc

• Maison Cailler ^[6]

Estavayer-le-Lac

• Museum of Estavayer-le-Lac

Fribourg

• Bible and Orient Museum
• Natural History Museum of Fribourg

Romont

• Romont Glass Museum

Canton of Geneva

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

Meyrin

• Microcosm (CERN)

Canton of the Grisons

Main article: List of museums in the Grisons

Bergün/Bravuogn

• Albula Railway Museum

Chur

• Bündner Kunstmuseum

Davos

• Kirchner Museum Davos

Sils-Maria

• Nietzsche-Haus

Susch

• Muzeum Susch

Canton of Jura

Delémont

• Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire

Develier

• Musée Chappuis-Fähndrich

Canton of Lucerne

Kriens

• Museum im Bellpark

Lucerne

• Kunstmuseum Luzern
• Natur-Museum Luzern
• Richard Wagner Museum
• Rosengart Collection Museum
• Swiss Transport Museum

Canton of Nidwalden

Hergiswil

• Glasi Hergiswil

Canton of Neuchâtel

La Chaux-de-Fonds

• Musée International d'Horlogerie

Le Locle

• Musée d'Horlogerie du Locle
• Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle

Neuchâtel

• Laténium
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
• Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel

Canton of Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen

• Hallen für Neue Kunst (closed)
• Museum Stemmler ^[7]
• Museum zu Allerheiligen

Stein am Rhein

• St. George's Abbey

Canton of Schwyz

Schwyz

• Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation

Canton of Solothurn

Solothurn

• Enter Museum
• Kunstmuseum Solothurn

Canton of St. Gallen

Degersheim

• Dreamfactory & World of Wonders ^[8]

Flawil

• Maestrani's Chocolarium ^[9]

Rapperswil-Jona

• Enea Tree Museum
• Polish Museum, Rapperswil
• Stadtmuseum Rapperswil

St. Gallen

• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Textile Museum St. Gallen  [ de ] ^[10]
• Natural History Museum in St. Gallen  [ de ] ^[11]

Canton of Thurgau

Arbon

• Arbon Castle (Historic Museum Arbon)

Salenstein

• Arenenberg (Napoleon Museum)

Canton of Ticino

Main article: List of museums in Ticino

Caslano

• Museo del Cioccolato Alprose

Lugano

• MASI Lugano
• Museum of Cultures (Lugano)
• Swiss Customs Museum

Canton of Valais

Martigny

• Fondation Pierre Gianadda

Sierre

• Rainer Maria Rilke Foundation

Zermatt

• Matterhorn Museum

Canton of Vaud

La Tour-de-Peilz

• Swiss Museum of Games

Lausanne

• Archizoom (EPFL)
• Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts
• Cantonal Museum of Zoology
• Collection de l'art brut
• Musée Bolo
• Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux
• Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
• Olympic Museum
• Photo Élysée

Nyon

• Lake Geneva Museum

Sainte-Croix

• Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique

Vevey

• Alimentarium
• Musée Jenisch

Yverdon-les-Bains

• Maison d'Ailleurs

Canton of Zug

• Militärhistorische Stiftung des Kantons Zug

Canton of Zurich

Dübendorf

• Flieger Flab Museum

Kilchberg

• Lindt Home of Chocolate

Küsnacht

• C. G. Jung House Museum

Niederweningen

• Mammutmuseum Niederweningen

Seegräben

• Aathal Dinosaur Museum

Winterthur

• Fotomuseum Winterthur
• Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz"
• Oskar Reinhart Museum
• Kunstmuseum Winterthur

• Swiss Science Center Technorama ^[12]

Zurich

• 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

1. "Museums". myswitzerland.com. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
2. "Eine Plattform getragen von zwei Verbänden: ICOM Schweiz, Verband der Museen der Schweiz". museums.ch (in German). Retrieved 14 June 2025.
3. "Sauriermuseum Frick" [Dinosaur museum Frick] (in German). Retrieved 6 August 2025.
4. "Visit to the Alpenbitter works". www.myswitzerland.com. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
5. "Much more than a chocolate museum". Camille Bloch. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
6. "Maison Cailler Visit". Cailler. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
7. "Museum Stemmler". Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
8. "Dreamfactory präsentiert" (in German). Dreamfactory & World of Wonders. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
9. "Chocolarium". Maestrani. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
10. "Textilmuseum St. Gallen". Textilmuseum St. Gallen. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
11. "Welcome to the Natural History Museum in St.Gallen". Naturmuseum St. Gallen. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
12. Jigme Garne, Elisabetta Antonelli (20 November 2014). "Technorama vermehrt auf Sponsoring angewiesen" (in German). Der Landbote . Retrieved 17 December 2014.
13. 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)