List of museums in Ticino

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This is a list of museums in Ticino, Switzerland.

NameImageCityArea of studyActive datesNotes
MASI Lugano Le LAC, la facade sud (Lugano, Suisse) (21783439458).jpg Lugano Art2015–presentalso known as Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana. [1]
Museum of Cultures (Lugano) 2021 VM Riva Caccia-RG web (1).jpg Castagnola Ethnography
Museo d'Arte moderna di Lugano Musee d'Art moderne de Lugano 03.JPG Lugano Art?–2015also known as Museum of Modern Art, Lugano or Villa Malpensata
Museo Cantonale di Arte di Lugano Lugano Art1987–2015
Museo Civico di Belle Arti di Lugano Lugano Art
Museo Cantonale di storia naturale di Lugano Musee cantonal d'histoire naturelle de Lugano 02.JPG Lugano Natural history
Museo Storico Villa Saroli Lugano History
Museo di Santa Maria degli Angeli Lugano
Fondazione Galleria Gottardo Lugano
Museo del Malcantone Museo del malcantone.jpg Curio Ethnography
Villa Ciani Lugano Art
Museo Laboratorio Kunsthalle Lugano Lugano Art
Museo Wilhelm Schmid Brè sopra LuganoArt
Museo Mario Bernasconi Pazzallo Art
Fondazione d'arte Erich Lindenberg Porza Art
Casa-Museo Luigi Rossi Tesserete Art
Museo del Bigorio Complesso del Convento di S. Maria Assunta e Museo a Bigorio (Kloster Santa Maria Assunta und Museum).jpg Bigorio History
Swiss Customs Museum Swiss Customs Museum 01.jpg Gandria Historyalso known as Museo delle dogane svizzere or Museo doganale svizzero
Archivio Storico Città di Lugano Lugano-CastagnolaHistory
Museo San Salvatore Lugano-ParadisoHistory
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 - Panorama von Swissminiatur.jpg Melide
Museo della Radio di Rivera Rivera
Museo del Cioccolato Alprose Alprose-Caslano-1.jpg Caslano Food1991–present
Museo della Pesca di Caslano Villa carolina.jpg 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 Picswiss TI-21-12.jpg 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 musee communal 2011-07-10 14 28 53 PICT3232.JPG 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 musee Epper 2011-07-10 15 47 20 PICT3259.JPG Ascona Art
Museo Fiorenzo Abbondio Minusio Art
Museo in Erba Bellinzona Art
Museo La Congiunta Congiunta1.JPG 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 Museo Vela.jpg Ligornetto Art
Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst Rancate.jpg 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 Picswiss TI-14-09.jpg Sonogno Ethnography [4]
Museo di Valmaggia Cevio Franzoni 2011-07-06 15 58 50 PICT3135.JPG 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 maison Walser 2011-07-11 13 00 39 PICT3291.JPG Bosco/GurinEthnography [7]
Piccolo Museo di Sessa Sessa Ethnography
Fondazione Museo della Storia Medica Ticinese Museo stabile.jpg Cadenazzo History of medicine and surgery
Museo Fossili e Minerali Semione Natural history
Casa Cavalier Pellanda Biasca History
Museo Castello di Sasso Corbaro Bellinzona - ArtoreHistory
Museo civico Castello di Montebello Bellinzona History
Museo civico e archeologico Locarno History
Museo del Dazio GrandeRodi-FiessoHistory
Museo di Castelgrande Bellinzona History
Museo di S. Maria degli Angioli Lugano History
Museo di San Martino Olivone History
Museo Forte Airolo Kaponniere.jpg Airolo History
Museo Forte Mondascia Biasca Biasca History
Museo Forte Ospizio Airolo - San GottardoHistory
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 RegazzoniPregassona
Museo ComicoVerscio
Museo del CaffèBalerna
Museo del cioccolato c/o Cima NormaDangio-Torre
Museo del vinoTenero
Museo della fotografia di Caslano c/o Municipio di CaslanoCaslano
Museo di speleologia San Salvatore Lugano - Paradiso
Museo Leoncavallo Fondazione R. Leoncavallo Brissago Baccala 2011-07-10 12 19 20 PICT3218.JPG Brissago2002–presentin the Municipio di Brissago
Piccolo museo della scatola di lattaBrione sopra Minusio
Piccolo museo delle scatole di latta di Franco GrassiAquila
Sasso San GottardoAirolo - Passo del Gottardo
Fondazione Archivio Donetta Corzoneso [8]
Museo del manifesto ticinese Morcote [9]

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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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ticino (river)</span> Tributary of the Po river.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valle Maggia</span>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Municipalities of the canton of Ticino</span>

There are 106 municipalities in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland,. Municipalities (comuni) are grouped in circles (circoli) which are part of districts (distretti).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bosco/Gurin</span> Municipality in Ticino, Switzerland

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vallemaggia District</span> District in Switzerland

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cevio</span> Municipality in Ticino, Switzerland

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valle Verzasca</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia</span> Natural history museum, Historic site in Venice, Italy

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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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cugnasco-Gerra</span> Municipality in Ticino, Switzerland

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nera Verzasca</span> Breed of goat

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.

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<i>Spazzacamini</i>

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Verzasca, Switzerland</span> Municipality in Ticino, Switzerland

Verzasca is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museum Walserhaus</span> Ethnographic museum in Bosco/Gurin, 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fabbrica di Cioccolato Cima Norma</span> Former chocolate factory in Dangio-Torre, Switzerland

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.

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