The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The Centre (CDN) in Neuchâtel collects, preserves and promotes Dürrenmatt’s pictorial work. The building encompasses the house where Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) and his family lived from 1952 until his death. The Centre presents a permanent exhibition devoted to Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s artistic oeuvre.
The museum (Musée d’art et d’histoire) presents the long history of the city and the canton and also presents in four departments in four departments objects and images in the fields of visual arts, history, applied arts and numismatics. The collections cover a period from antiquity to the present day: musical instruments and furniture, medals … Read more » “Museum of Art and History”
The museum (Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel, MEN) houses some 50,000 objects, about half of which are represented by African collections from East and South Africa, Angola of the 1930s, Sahara and Sahel (Tuaregs and Moors) and Gabon. It also holds Asian, Eskimo and Oceania collections, non-European musical instruments and pieces from ancient Egypt. Since 1984, its … Read more » “Museum of Ethnography Neuchâtel”
The Museum of Art and History (Le musée d’art et d’histoire) presents Galeries de l’histoire, a series of historical models that map out the urban development stages of the city of Neuchâtel. Six moments are milestones in this development: 1181, 1250, 1400, 1650, 1776 and 1873.