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This is a list of museums in Ticino, Switzerland.
Name | Image | City | Area of study | Active dates | Notes |
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MASI Lugano | Lugano | Art | 2015–present | also known as Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana. [1] | |
Museum of Cultures (Lugano) | Castagnola | Ethnography | |||
Museo d'Arte moderna di Lugano | Lugano | Art | ?–2015 | also known as Museum of Modern Art, Lugano or Villa Malpensata | |
Museo Cantonale di Arte di Lugano | Lugano | Art | 1987–2015 | ||
Museo Civico di Belle Arti di Lugano | Lugano | Art | |||
Museo Cantonale di storia naturale di Lugano | Lugano | Natural history | |||
Museo Storico Villa Saroli | Lugano | History | |||
Museo di Santa Maria degli Angeli | Lugano | ||||
Fondazione Galleria Gottardo | Lugano | ||||
Museo del Malcantone | Curio | Ethnography | |||
Villa Ciani | Lugano | Art | |||
Museo Laboratorio Kunsthalle Lugano | Lugano | Art | |||
Museo Wilhelm Schmid | Brè sopra Lugano | Art | |||
Museo Mario Bernasconi | Pazzallo | Art | |||
Fondazione d'arte Erich Lindenberg | Porza | Art | |||
Casa-Museo Luigi Rossi | Tesserete | Art | |||
Museo del Bigorio | Bigorio | History | |||
Swiss Customs Museum | Gandria | History | also known as Museo delle dogane svizzere or Museo doganale svizzero | ||
Archivio Storico Città di Lugano | Lugano-Castagnola | History | |||
Museo San Salvatore | Lugano-Paradiso | History | |||
Museo Hermann Hesse | Montagnola | History | |||
Museo d'Arte Sacra di Breno | Breno | History | |||
Fondazione Vincenzo Vicari | Caslano | History | |||
Museo della Miniera d'Oro | Sessa | History | |||
Piccolo Museo di Sessa e Monteggio | Sessa | History | |||
Swissminiatur | Melide | ||||
Museo della Radio di Rivera | Rivera | ||||
Museo del Cioccolato Alprose | Caslano | Food | 1991–present | ||
Museo della Pesca di Caslano | Caslano | [2] | |||
Museo della Grappa c/o Tenuta Tamborini | Castelrotto | ||||
Museo Ferrovie Luganesi / Museo della ferrovia FLP - Ponte Tresa | Ponte Tresa | ||||
Museo Villa dei Cedri | Bellinzona | Art | |||
Casa Pessina | Ligornetto | Art | |||
Centro Culturale e museo Elisarion | Minusio | Art | |||
m.a.x. museo | Chiasso | Art | |||
Museo Casa del Padre di Orselina | Orselina | Art | |||
Museo civico e archeologico Stabile Casorella e Castello Visconteo | Locarno | Art | |||
Museo comunale d'arte moderna di Ascona | Ascona | Art | |||
Museo di San Sebastiano di Ascona | Ascona | Art | |||
Museo d'arte città di Mendrisio | Mendrisio | Art | |||
Museo d'Arte Sacra della Parrocchia di Meride | Meride | Art | |||
Museo Epper | Ascona | Art | |||
Museo Fiorenzo Abbondio | Minusio | Art | |||
Museo in Erba | Bellinzona | Art | |||
Museo La Congiunta | Giornico | Art | |||
Museo parrocchiale Campione d'Italia | Campione d'Italia | Art | |||
Museo parrocchiale Morbio Inferiore | Morbio Inferiore | Art | |||
Museo Rainis e Aspazija | Castagnola | Art | |||
Museo Sergio Maina | Caslano | Art | |||
Museo Villa Pia | Porza | Art | |||
Museo Vincenzo Vela | Ligornetto | Art | |||
Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst | Rancate | Art | |||
Spazio Espositivo Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati | Lugano | Art | |||
Cà da Rivöi | Olivone | Ethnography | |||
Casa Besta | Brusio | Ethnography | |||
Museo C'era una volta | Riva San Vitale | Ethnography | |||
Museo della civiltà contadina del Mendrisiotto | Stabio | Ethnography | |||
Museo della Memoria | Giubiasco | Ethnography, history | |||
Museo della Valle di Blenio [3] | Lottigna | Ethnography | |||
Museo di civiltà contadina c/o Obaldi Bruno | Camorino | Ethnography | |||
Museo di Leventina | Giornico | Ethnography | |||
Museo di Val Verzasca | Sonogno | Ethnography | [4] | ||
Museo di Valmaggia | Cevio | Ethnography | [5] | ||
Museo etnografico della Valle di Muggio | Cabbio | Ethnography | |||
Museo Odro | Vogorno | Ethnography | |||
Museo Onsernonese | Loco | Ethnography | [6] | ||
Museo regionale delle Centovalli e del Pedemonte | Intragna | Ethnography | |||
Museo Walserhaus Gurin | Bosco/Gurin | Ethnography | [7] | ||
Piccolo Museo di Sessa | Sessa | Ethnography | |||
Fondazione Museo della Storia Medica Ticinese | Cadenazzo | History of medicine and surgery | |||
Museo Fossili e Minerali | Semione | Natural history | |||
Casa Cavalier Pellanda | Biasca | History | |||
Museo Castello di Sasso Corbaro | Bellinzona - Artore | History | |||
Museo civico Castello di Montebello | Bellinzona | History | |||
Museo civico e archeologico | Locarno | History | |||
Museo del Dazio Grande | Rodi-Fiesso | History | |||
Museo di Castelgrande | Bellinzona | History | |||
Museo di S. Maria degli Angioli | Lugano | History | |||
Museo di San Martino | Olivone | History | |||
Museo Forte Airolo | Airolo | History | |||
Museo Forte Mondascia Biasca | Biasca | History | |||
Museo Forte Ospizio | Airolo - San Gottardo | History | |||
Museo Monte Verità | Ascona | History | |||
Museo Nazionale del S. Gottardo | Airolo | History | |||
Museo Plebano | Agno | History | |||
Esposizione veicoli d'epoca | Pregassona | ||||
Fondazione Rolf Gérard | Ascona | ||||
Galleria Baumgartner | Mendrisio | ||||
Memorial Room Clay Regazzoni | Pregassona | ||||
Museo Comico | Verscio | ||||
Museo del Caffè | Balerna | ||||
Museo del cioccolato c/o Cima Norma | Dangio-Torre | ||||
Museo del vino | Tenero | ||||
Museo della fotografia di Caslano c/o Municipio di Caslano | Caslano | ||||
Museo di speleologia San Salvatore | Lugano - Paradiso | ||||
Museo Leoncavallo Fondazione R. Leoncavallo | Brissago | 2002–present | in the Municipio di Brissago | ||
Piccolo museo della scatola di latta | Brione sopra Minusio | ||||
Piccolo museo delle scatole di latta di Franco Grassi | Aquila | ||||
Sasso San Gottardo | Airolo - Passo del Gottardo | ||||
Fondazione Archivio Donetta | Corzoneso | [8] | |||
Museo del manifesto ticinese | Morcote | [9] |
Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eight districts and its capital city is Bellinzona. It is also traditionally divided into the Sopraceneri and the Sottoceneri, respectively north and south of Monte Ceneri. Red and blue are the colours of its flag.
The river Ticino is the most important perennial left-bank tributary of the Po. It has given its name to the Swiss canton through which its upper portion flows.
Valle Maggia is an alpine valley in the Vallemaggia district of canton of Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. The valley is formed by the river Maggia and is situated between the Centovalli and Lago Maggiore as well as the Valle Verzasca in the East.
There are 106 municipalities in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland,. Municipalities (comuni) are grouped in circles (circoli) which are part of districts (distretti).
Bosco/Gurin is a municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village is near the end of the valley of Bosco Gurin, near the Italian border. Despite the overall prominence of Italian in Ticino, the small municipality of Bosco/Gurin is historically German-speaking.
The Vallemaggia District is a district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It has a population of 5,952. The capital of the district is Cevio.
Cevio is the capital of the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. In 2006 Cevio grew by incorporating the villages of Bignasco and Cavergno, previously municipalities in their own right.
The Valle Verzasca is a valley in the Locarno district of the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It comprises the municipalities of Mergoscia, Vogorno, Corippo, Lavertezzo, Brione, Gerra, Frasco, and Sonogno. As of 2004, the total population is 3,200. It is the most central valley of Ticino, and none of the passes out of the valley cross cantonal or national borders. The valley is formed by the river Verzasca and is situated between the Leventina and the Maggia and culminates at Pizzo Barone.
Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia is a museum of natural history housed in Fondaco dei Turchi, located on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Its collections relate mainly to the natural history of the Venetian lagoon that surrounds the city. Today it is one of the 11 venues managed by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
Pizzo d'Orsalia is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, overlooking Bosco/Gurin in the canton of Ticino. It lies on the chain that separates the Val Calnègia from the Valle di Bosco/Gurin.
Cugnasco-Gerra is a municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It was formed on January 1, 2009, through the merger of Cugnasco and Gerra.
The Madonino is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, located west of Cevio in the canton of Ticino. It lies between the valleys of Bavona and Bosco/Gurin.
The Nera Verzasca, also known as the Nera di Verzasca or Verzaschese, is an indigenous breed of black domestic goat from the Valle Verzasca, in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland, from which it takes its name. It is raised in that area and in the provinces of Como, Varese and Verbano Cusio Ossola in northern Lombardy, in the north of Italy.
The Museo d'arte is a museum for modern and contemporary art. It is in Avellino, Italy.
Spazzacamini was the term for child laborers in 19th- and early 20th-century Italy and Switzerland, where they were also known as Kaminfegerkinder in German-speaking areas.
Verzasca is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
The Museum Walserhaus Gurin is located in the characteristic Walser village of Bosco/Gurin and is the oldest ethnographic museum in the Canton of Ticino. It is managed by the Walserhaus Gurin Association.
The Fabbrica di Cioccolato Cima Norma S.A., also Chocolat Cima-Norma S.A., in Torre-Dangio was an industrial chocolate production company in the canton of Ticino. It was founded in 1903 by the Cima brothers. It went bankrupt in 1968. The company Cima Norma S.A. also stands for the economic development and modernization advancement goal from the beginning of the 20th century for the mountain valley Blenio Valley, which was classified as a peripheral region.