Lucerne
Switzerland's largest planetarium, in Lucerne's Verkehrshaus, presents a variety of shows every day on its 508-sq-metre dome. Check the website for full…
Lucerne
Switzerland's largest planetarium, in Lucerne's Verkehrshaus, presents a variety of shows every day on its 508-sq-metre dome. Check the website for full…
Zürich
The house where firebrand preacher Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) lived and worked. Zwingli began speaking out against the Catholic Church here in the 16th…
The Jura Mountains
If you're looking for something completely different, this educational facility is dedicated to the world of robotics. It helps to have some French…
Musée Jurassien d’Art et d’Histoire
The Jura Mountains
This local-history museum explores life in the Jura over the centuries through a permanent collection of paintings, art, artefacts and documents. The…
Valais
Meander along the main street, past the church, to this old wooden Valaisian house where village life in the 19th century is evoked through traditional…
Bernese Oberland
This attractive 18th-century wooden chalet showcases exhibits on wine cultivation. The best time to actually taste local tipples is at the Läset-Sunntig…
Basel
This bustling square is named after the barefoot Franciscan friars who founded the eponymous Barfüsserkirche (Barefooted Ones Church) here in the 14th…
Tibet Museum – Fondation Alain Bordier
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
When the Swiss Alpine theme tires, head for this oasis of Tibetan art where Buddhist ritual objects, sculptures and paintings from Nepal, Kashmir, Swat…
Basel
With its riot of wacky machines spewing and shooting forth water, this zany fountain offers a taste of the madcap moving sculptures to be found in the…
Neuchâtel
This elaborate, ornate fountain features a banner-wielding knight standing atop a pillar with lots of gold-leaf detail. The Fontaine de la Justice is of…
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
Fribourg's late-Gothic town hall dominates the heart of the Old Town. Just to the side, you'll find the 500-year-old symbol of the city, the Tilleul de…
Lausanne
Check out the remains of Roman Lousonna, and the adjacent museum, housed on the site of a Roman villa, with its modest collection of artefacts. Walk or…
Geneva
This little local history museum in what is now the neighbourhood of Carouge is packed with 19th-century artefacts (mostly ceramics) that hark back to a…
Zermatt
It is a 1.5km walk from Zermatt along the river to this dramatic gorge, carved out of green serpentinite rock and accessed by a series of wooden…
Northeastern Switzerland
Lodged in Rorschach's imposing 18th-century Kornhaus (granary), this museum turns the spotlight on science, technology, industry and local history with…
Interlaken
This low-key museum sits on a cobbled, fountain-dotted square in Unterseen. The permanent exhibition presents a romp through tourism in the region with…
Bern
A flight of steps leads from the northern end of Lorrainebrücke to the University Botanical Garden, a riverside garden with plenty of green specimens to…
Northeastern Switzerland
A four-storey house has been converted into this museum, whose living rooms, servants’ quarters and kitchen replicate the conditions enjoyed in the mid…
Musée International d’Horlogerie
The Jura Mountains
This is a well-thought-out museum in a leafy park with history and fine-arts museums as neighbours and a huge steel carillon that plays on the quarter,…
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
Cross Pont du Milieu and head west towards this broad, sloping square, which features the former Commanderie de St Jean, erected by the Knights of the…
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
With a determinedly modern annex bolted onto an imposing 1886 hospital building, this place displays intriguing contemporary art exhibitions with a strong…
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
Murten's German Church, dating to 1399, was rebuilt in baroque style in 1710. Don't miss its stucco ceiling and lovely polygonal pulpit, carved from a…
Lake Geneva & Vaud
In the foundations of what was a 1st-century basilica, the multimedia display of the Musée Romain lends insight into Nyon’s Roman beginnings as Colonia…
Lausanne
Offices of the City of Lausanne are housed in the 17th-century Hôtel de Ville and whilst you can pop your head in the foyer for a snoop, it's not open to…
Zürich
Upstairs from the Migros Museum, the ‘Art Hall’ features changing exhibitions of contemporary art, spread over two floors.
Montreux
Displays range from Roman finds and period furniture to thimbles and street signs at Montreux’s local history museum, situated inside an old winegrower’s…
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
In a mill outside the city walls, this museum displays artefacts discovered during the dredging of the Broye Canal in 1829 and cannons used in the Battle…
Montreux
This lovely Alpine garden with around 1000 plants is located about 400m from the Rochers de Naye cogwheel-train station.
Central Switzerland
A two-hour walk north of Einsiedeln and back will bring you to the narrow, wood-covered Devil’s Bridge, built by abbey master Caspar Moosbrugger in 1699.
Northwestern Switzerland
The Old Town is adorned by a fetching covered timber bridge (Holzbrücke), cobbled lanes and an assortment of step-gabled houses.
Lugano
Bearing the hallmark of famous Ticinese architect Mario Botta, this striking cluster of buildings was formerly known as the Banca del Gottardo.
Zürich
Housed in the renovated Löwenbräu brewery, this well-funded contemporary art museum focuses on innovative work from the past few decades.
Lausanne
This timber-canopied staircase with tiled roof heads up the hill from Pl de la Palud to Rue Pierre Viret and beyond to the cathedral.
Zermatt
Zermatt's main church, at the end of the main street, was built in 1913 and has a beautiful 18th-century altar. Feel free to enter.
Église de Notre Dame des Champs
Valais
This baroque church in central Martigny hides remains of Romanesque and Gothic churches, and even a 4th-century baptistery.
Ticino
This ochre-hued church is noteworthy for its huge fresco of St Christopher and a smaller one of the Virgin Mary and Christ.
Graubünden
This ski-obsessed museum races you back to an age when skis were wooden planks and snowshoes improvised tennis rackets.
Locarno
Standing proud on a fountain-dotted square, this church is best known for its altar to the Cristo Morto (Dead Christ).
Fribourg, Drei-Seen-Land and The Jura
This small aviation museum has exhibits on the little-known Swiss air force and the planes manufactured in the area.
Chur
In the back of the Old Town, this is one of the few remains of the old defensive walls built in the 13th century.
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