Museums and art galleries

The museum shows the world of soap, its production and marketing.

The collections portray the history of the textile branch, its highs and lows, from the beginnings up into the present. Among the highlights of the collection are late antique fabrics from Coptic graves in Egypt, historical embroideries from the 14th century on, handmade lace from major European lace-making centers, ethnological textiles, historical fabrics and costumes, needlework … Read more » “Textile Museum St. Gallen”

The Nicola Erni Collection holds an extensive and in-depth collection of artworks in various media; photography (one of the world’s biggest private collections, the core being fashion photography, with works dating from the 1930s to today), sculpture, installations, paintings, and works on paper by artists such as Richard Avedon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Maurizio Cattelan, Elmgreen & … Read more » “The Nicola Erni Collection”

The museum organizes permanent and temporary exhibitions and is a site for art, research and debate. The museum focuses in particular on women artists and to explore the notion of the feminine it its diverse facets, social, political and cultural.