This section contains an overview of the most relevant exhibitions in Switzerland and neighbouring regions. Each item is connected to the organizing museum.
The exhibition presents a underwater world awash with light and provides an insight into exotic flora and fauna. Michel Roggo (1951) is a freshwater photographer who won multiple awards. In 2010, he launched his ambitious ‘Freshwater Project’ to draw attention to endangered freshwater habitats. Around 900 photos document the on which Michel Roggo embarked throughout his Project.
Debris Field (2010–2016) stands for the variety of approaches and modes of expression employed by Lois Weinberger (1947). His artistic-archaeological work explores and presents relics from several centuries of history found at Weinberger’s parents’ farm. The farm managed by the family until today is linked to Stams Abbey and reflects a history of mutual influence. It preserves and tells stories of piety, superstition and the sparse life full of privation between the high culture of the abbey and forms of behaviour linked to the late medieval period. Due to the lack of contact with the ground and dampness, this ‘archaeology of the housed’ reveals a wealth of objects much like a chamber of curiosities, an amazing universe of peasant life that enables a more profound take on everyday life.
The exhibition presents the largest medieval castle ruin on the Upper Rhine, the Rötteln Castle. It sheds light on the eventful history of the castle and shows how its dominion – the Markgräflerland – developed between Basel and France. Around 300 exhibits and digital reconstructions bring various centuries since the High Middle Ages to life.