Engadine Museum

Engadiner Museum

The museum whose exterior looks like a 300-hundred years old Engadine style house is only more than one hundred years old. It was Riet Campell (1866 - 1951) who founded this museum and entrusted the architect Nikolaus Hartmann (1880 - 1956) with the construction of a house for his collection. It should reflect the typical Engadine style. The museum shelters an important collection of furnishings and objects of the culture of habitation of the Engadine. Already from the end of the 19th century Riet Campell collected furniture, equipment, weapons, books and soft goods, but first of all entire interior decorations made of Swiss pine wood. The foundation of the museum reflected the upcoming concern to protect the local culture of that time. The major part of the interiors collected by Campell comes from the Engadine and covers the time period between the 13th and the 19th century. Additionally to the historic interior decorations the collection includes all in all over 2300 exhibits which can be seen in the exhibition rooms. The diversity of this treasury includes living rooms of different centuries, a ceremonial room of a patrician house, a smoke-blackened rural kitchen of the Engadine, a fourposter bed from the time of plague, the spring tapping of the mineral spring of St. Moritz of the Bronze Age and more. Come and visit our collection and experience a tour across the cultural history of St. Moritz and of the Engadine.
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