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Swiss Industrial Heritage

Leisure and educational activities relating to the history of technology and industrial culture in Switzerland

Museums and collections

Experience and understand history up close

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Weaving, spinning, generating electricity, drilling tunnels, making shoes, telephoning, making paper... The museums and collections place a spotlight on the technologies that helped to make Switzerland what it is today.

Museums and collections

Well worth exploring

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A mixture of nationally renowned museums and less familiar treasures explain and demonstrate the rarest, the most valuable and often the most fascinating machines. Museums of various sizes highlight the courage and innovation it takes to preserve and run these witnesses of the age of industrialisation. The museums and collections serve as a reminder of what was – and still is – needed for Switzerland to become rich and, in the future, more sustainable.

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The Swiss Industrial Heritage web portal showcases sites where the cultural heritage of industrial production can be experienced. A necessary initiative indeed, when it comes to keeping industrial history alive: values such as precision, safety and reliability that are associated with Swiss industry all remain part of our identity. Strengthening our links to our homeland is more important than ever in view of developments such as globalisation, multiculturalism and digitalisation.
Matthias Michel, Member of the Council of States, Canton Zug Learn more
Associations, foundations, public collections of the history of technology and industrial culture need a national platform to ensure that the related concerns receive the support they need. The collections and archives from part of Switzerland’s national identity.
Kilian T. Elsasser, Chairman of VINTES