Museums in Switzerland

Museums in Switzerland
More than 900 museums in Switzerland - the museum's 7,500 inhabitants. The number of museums tripled since World War II. Many of them are small local history museum dedicated to the villages. The total number of entries, about 10 million a year, in other words, all in Switzerland for more than six years is not too weak to leave the house twice a year in research museum.

Historical Museums in Switzerland

• Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich
  (Switzerland's National Museum, at Zurich's main railway station)
• Forum der Schweizer Geschichte, Schwyz

Prehistory

• Museum für Urgeschichte, Zug
• Latenium, Neuchâtel (exposes the findings of La Tène
• Augusta Raurica

Middle Ages, Castles

• Stiftsbibliothek (Library of the monastery of St. Gallen: ancient books)
• Chillon Castle
• Lenzburg Castle (Historical Museum of canton Aargau)

Old Swiss Confederacy

• Bundesbriefarchiv Schwyz (Museum of the Federal Charter)
• Tellmuseum Bürglen.
• Talmuseum Saanenland, Saanen
  A really interesting local museum
• Ballenberg (open-air museum: old farmhouses)

Technical and Science Museums in Switzerland

• Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz)
  • most comprehensive traffic and telecom museum in Europe
  • IMAX® movie theatre
  • Planetarium
  • Hans Erni Museum: Over 300 works express this artist's special relationship to technology
• Technorama, Winterthur (the exhibition includes ERMETH, the first computer designed and built in Switzerland in the 1950's)
• cameramuseum, Vevey
• Museum für Kommunikation, Bern

Museums of Natural History in Switzerland

Glacier Garden (Gletschergarten, Lucerne) 

Natural monument, a large glacial potholes and irregular blocks of the Ice Age 20,000 years ago in fossilized shells and palm leaves before 20 million years. Within Switzerland, the oldest relief maps, historic town, a mirror maze.

• Museum of Natural History, Lucerne One of the most attractive Natural History museums in Switzerland
• Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
• Alpineum 3D-Panorama of the Alps, Lucerne

One of the first three-dimensional images showing the most beautiful mountains of Switzerland: Mount Pilate, Rigi, Jungfrau, Monte Rosa, Matterhorn

Museums of Art in Switzerland

• Lucerne's Art Museum (fourth largest in Switzerland, contemporary art)
• The Rosengart Collection

More than 200 paintings and drawings of Picasso, Klee, Léger, "Miró" Marriage and other famous artists of the 19th and 20 century  

• Picasso Museum
  Extraordinary collection of important works by Picasso from the last 20 years of his life
• Richard Wagner Museum Former residence of the famous composer. Collection of antique musical instruments.