8 Museums in St. Gallen That You Shouldn't Miss

With four floors of exhibition space, the Natural History Museum is a great place to discover Eastern Switzerland’s native animals and minerals up close. The walk through exhibits provide for an interactive experience – now also through a digital museum guide in three languages (G, E, F) featuring one knowledge tour and four game tours. Explore Switzerland’s largest 3D topographic model of Eastern Switzerland, surrounded by exhibits of the diverse fauna between Lake Constance and Ringelspitz. In the realm of the bear, there is much to learn not only about Switzerland’s native predator, the cave bear of the Wildkirchli area, but also about the busy life of ant populations. The top floor invites visitors to journey through the story of Life on Earth and meet the Museum’s weightiest object: an original skeleton of an Edmontosaurus. Other exhibits explore the sustainable use of natural resources and technical inventions inspired by nature; lovers of sparkling crystals are in for a treat i

The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, with its attractive, temporary exhibitions of contemporary and modern art, enjoys international renown. As a treasure chest of eastern Switzerland, the museum houses an abundant collection of paintings and sculptures from the Late Middle Ages through to the present, the highlights of which are shown in a permanent exhibition. The building, constructed in 1877 by Johann Christoph Kunkler in a neoclassical style, invites one to stroll through the art of the past and present: a dialogue of old and new enables a diversified cultural experience, whereby international traveling exhibitions can be seen, and masterpieces of the past meet today’s contemporary art! An extensive educational programming team has made the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen an attractive place for encountering art of the past and present! The Kunstzone (art zone) in the Lokremise (engine depot), the Kunstmuseum’s second «venue», serves as a culture lab for contemporary art.

Das schmucke Seifenmuseum in St.Gallen entführt Sie in duftender Umgebung in die Welt der Seife, ihrer Produktion und Vermarktung. Lassen Sie sich zeigen und erklären, was es mit Seife alles auf sich hat, und staunen Sie über Vielfalt von Farben, Formen und Verwendungszwecken.

Founded in 1878, the Textile Museum of St.Gallen houses one of Switzerland’s most important textile collections. Woven materials and embroideries from every corner of the globe, sample books, sketches and photographs: the Museum’s exhibitions bear testimony to the shifting fortunes of Swiss textiles, an industry shaped by regional pride and international influence. In addition to the permanent exhibition “Manufacturers and Manipulators”, which is dedicated to the textile history of Eastern Switzerland, the following exhibitions will be presented in 2018/19: Lace and Status The collection of historical lace in the Textilmuseum St. Gallen 26 October 2018 – 10 February 2019 Circus Knie Fashion Costumes from a hundred years in the Textilmuseum St. Gallen 7 March 2019 - 19 January 2020