There are more than 900 museums in Switzerland - one museum per 7500 inhabitants. The number of museums has tripled after World War II. Many of these are small museums dedicated to the local history of villages. The total number of entries amounts to about 10 million per year, in other words, everybody in Switzerland above 6 years and not too infirm to leave the home visits an average of two museums a year.

Historical Museums in Switzerland

• Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich
  (Switzerland's National Museum, at Zurich's main railway station)
  
  
• Forum der Schweizer Geschichte, Schwyz
  
  

Prehistory

• Seeland - Museum
• Museum für Urgeschichte, Zug
• Latenium, Neuchâtel (exposes the findings of La Tène

Helvetier, Römer, Alamannen

• Augusta Raurica



Middle Ages, Castles

• Stiftsbibliothek (Library of the monastery of St. Gallen: ancient books)
• Chillon Castle
• Lenzburg Castle (Historical Museum of canton Aargau)
• Schloss Frauenfeld (Historisches Museum des Kantons Thurgau)
• Schloss Greyerz für Freunde pseudomittelalterlicher Fantasy-Romane
das schien eine Sonderausstellung zu sein

Old Swiss Confederacy

• Bundesbriefarchiv Schwyz (Museum of the Federal Charter)
• Tellmuseum Bürglen.
• Talmuseum Saanenland, Saanen
  A really interesting local museum
• Ballenberg (open-air museum: old farmhouses)
• Schaukäsereien gibt es z.B. in Schwyz, Greyerz
• Bourbaki Panorama
  A giant 10 x 110 m large circular painting illustrates the internment of General Bourbaki's French army in Switzerland during the Franco-German war (winter 1871). It is a testimony of the first humanitarian efforts of the
  
  
• Römerhaus und Museum, Kaiseraugst
• Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde
• Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel
• Historisches Museum, Basel
• Jewish Museum of Switzerland, Basel
• Feuerwehrmuseum, Basel
• Schweizerisches Pharmazie-Historisches Museum, Basel
• Anatomische Sammlung, Basel
  features the most ancient medical preparation, a skeleton by Vesalius, 1543)
• History Museum, Bern
• Crafts Museum, Bern (in former municipal grain store)
• Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern

Technical and Science Museums in Switzerland

• Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz)
  • most comprehensive traffic and telecom museum in Europe
  • IMAX® movie theatre
  • Planetarium
  • Hans Erni Museum: Over 300 works express this artist's special relationship to technology
  Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz)"
  
  
• Technorama, Winterthur (the exhibition includes ERMETH, the first computer designed and built in Switzerland in the 1950's)
  
  
• Bahnlehrpfad Albulabahn
• Spielautomatenmuseum, Seewen SO (Filiale des Landesmuseums)
• cameramuseum, Vevey
  
  
• Museum für Kommunikation, Bern
  
  
• Puppenhausmuseum Basel
• Kindermuseum, Baden (hiess früher: Spielzeugmuseum)

Museums of Natural History in Switzerland

• Glacier Garden (Gletschergarten, Lucerne) Lucerne, Switzerland: Glacial potholes and erratic blocks at Glaciergarden museum"
  Natural monument with gigantic glacial potholes and erratic blocks from the Ice Age 20,000 years ago; fossilized shells and palm leaves from 20 million years ago. Inside: the oldest relief maps of Switzerland, historical model of the city, mirror labyrinth.
  
  
• Museum of Natural History, Lucerne
  One of the most attractive Natural History museums in Switzerland
  
  
• Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
  
  
• Natural History Museum, Bern
• Alpineum 3D-Panorama of the Alps, Lucerne
  One of the first three-dimensional representations showing the most beautiful mountains of Switzerland: Mount Pilate, Rigi, Jungfrau, Monte Rosa, Matterhorn
  
  

Dinosaurier im Museum

• Das Seeland - Museum unterhält eine informative und reich bebilderte Webseite zu seinen Ausstellungsobjekten
• Im Sauriermuseum Aathal zwischen Uster und Wetzikon (S14, Station Aathal) sind über 200 saurierartige Wesen zu bestaunen.
• Im Préhisto-Parc in Réclère (JU, 14 km westlich von Porrentruy) sind Dinosaurier und andere ausgestorbene Wirbeltiere als imposante lebensgrose Nachbildungen zu sehen
• Die Saurierspuren von Lommiswil (20 Gehminuten von der Station Im Holz der Bahnlinie Solothurn-Moutier) sind am besten bei schräg einfallendem Licht (morgens oder abends) zu sehen. Ausstellung dazu im Naturmuseum Solothurn
• Prunkstück im Sauriermuseum Frick (5 Min. vom Bahnhof im alten Schulhaus Frick AG) ist ein rund 220 Mio. Jahre altes Plateosaurier-Skelett

Museums of Art in Switzerland

• Art Gallery, Bern
• Museum of Art, Basel
• Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (Basel): Art
• Tinguely Museum, Basel
• Kunsthalle, Basel
• Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Basel
• Fine Arts Museum (Kunsthaus) Zurich
• Museum Rietberg (non-European Arts), Zurich
• Museum of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum), Zurich
• Sammlung Reihard (?) Winterthur
• Lucerne's Art Museum (fourth largest in Switzerland, contemporary art)
  
  
• Rosengart Collection
  Over 200 paintings and drawings by Picasso, Klee, Léger, Miró Braque and other famous masters of the 19^th and 20^th centuries
  
  
• Picasso Museum
  Extraordinary collection of important works by Picasso from the last 20 years of his life
  
  
• Richard Wagner Museum
  Former residence of the famous composer. Collection of antique musical instruments.
• Museum of Fine Art, Bern