The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum’s collections contain many objects related to daily life, the particular origin of the present city, and the role of watchmaking. The best-represented periods are the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. The permanent exhibition focuses on the history of La Chaux-de-Fonds, its planning, and its most famous citizen, Le … Read more » “Historical Museum La Chaux-de-Fonds”
The museum (Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds) exhibits a broad collection of paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in particular the famous collection of René et Madeleine Junod (19th-century European masters), Léopold Robert, Art Suisse, le Corbusier, Art Nouveau and style Sapin, applied arts and the collections Olivier Mosset and Erwin Oberwiller. … Read more » “Museum of Art of La Chaux-de-Fonds”
The museum (musée de l’horlogerie) presents the measurement of time from antiquity to the present day. The collection offers a wonderful historical overview of the evolution of technology and the art of measuring time. The themes covered are the calendar, time and daily life and work, the aesthetics of the watch, and clocks craftsmanship and … Read more » “Watchmaking Museum La Chaux-de-Fonds”
An information center (Espace de l’urbanisme horloger) to discover and understand the UNESCO townplanning heritage of the city and the role of the watch making industry in the mid nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.