The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art) in the capital of music boxes shows the fascinating world of cylinder music boxes, disc music ( ancestor to the jukebox), orchestrions and mechanical pianos, street organs, singing birds and the famous “station musix boxes” with their dancing dolls. The machine “Pushkin” can also be seen, the … Read more » “CIMA”
The Arenenberg Castle was home to Hortense de Beauharnais, adoptive daughter and sister-in-law of napoleon I, from 1817 on. She completely redesigned Arenenberg in the French fashion. Even the interior was decorated with wallpapers, furniture, statues, and paintings commemorating Napoleon I. Her son Louis Napoléon, the future Emperor Napoleon III, grew up there. In 1906, … Read more » “Napoleon Museum”
The museum commemorates the first wireless telegraphic connection that Marconi established in 1895. This was in the village of Salvan. The museum shows the development afterwards, in which the rise of the radio occupies a central place.
The Chesa Planta houses a museum of living culture of the Engadine patricians of the 18th and 19th centuries as well as an important Rhaeto-Romanic library and is a centre of Rhaeto-Romanic culture.