"The cradle of the confederation" Chamber of the Swiss national Council by Charles Giron (1859-1914), 1901.
Photograph: www.parlament.ch.

Swiss Culture and History in European perspective

Museums and art galleries

The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.

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Gotthelf Center

Switzerland / Lützelflüh

The museum (Gotthelf Zentrum) shows the works, house and study of the priest and writer Albert Bizius (1797-1854), better known under his pseudonym Jeremias Gotthelf.

Media Library of Valais

Switzerland / Martigny

The Media Library of Valais (Médiathèque Valais/Mediathek Wallis)  offers free access to thousands of documents from different media, books, magazines, films, photography and modern media. It also organizes exhibitions and other events with cultural-historical topics. (Source for more information: www.mediatheque.ch).

Wallpaper Museum Mézières

Switzerland / Mézières

The museum (musée du papier peint) resents an extremely rare and varied collection of high quality wallpapers from the 18th and 19th centuries.