The 10 Best Specialty Museums in Canton of Ticino, Swiss Alps

November 21, 2021 Viva Honore

This Italian-speaking region in Southern Switzerland is on the border with Italy. Bellinzona is the capital, and Lugano is the most important city in the canton, known for its beautiful waterfront, steep hillsides and gorgeous lake views. Castelgrande is a lovely medieval castle overlooking the city that has recently been restored. The Centovalli Railway is a scenic train that operates between Locarno, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, traveling through the breathtaking "Hundred Valleys." Lake Como is nearby, the home of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” George Clooney.
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1. Centro Visitatori AlpTransit San Gottardo

Postfach 2, Pollegio 6742 Switzerland +41 91 873 05 50 http://www.alptransit.ch
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5.0 based on 4 reviews

Centro Visitatori AlpTransit San Gottardo

2. Museo Villa dei Cedri

Piazza San Biagio 9, Bellinzona 6500 Switzerland +41 58 203 17 31 [email protected] http://www.villacedri.ch/
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5.0 based on 6 reviews

Museo Villa dei Cedri

3. Museo Vincenzo Vela

Largo Vela, Ligornetto 6853 Switzerland +41 58 481 30 40 [email protected] http://www.museo-vela.ch
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4.5 based on 30 reviews

Museo Vincenzo Vela

The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the Swiss state, in addition to Vincenzo Vela's gallery of monumental plaster casts it includes the bequests of the sculptor Lorenzo Vela (1812-97) and painter Spartaco Vela (1854-95), a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Lombard and Piedmontese paintings, hundreds of autograph drawings and one of the earliest private collections of photographs in Switzerland.

4. Museo Del Caffe

Motta, via Giuseppe 2, Balerna 6828 Switzerland http://www.chiccodoro.ch/?fuseaction=m9.18
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4.5 based on 3 reviews

Museo Del Caffe

5. Fishing Museum

via Meriggi 32, Caslano 6987 Switzerland +41 91 606 63 63 http://www.museodellapesca.ch
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4.5 based on 11 reviews

Fishing Museum

This fascinating exhibition gives us an idea of fishing from prehistoric times to today, touching upon several subjects like boat construction, the fish trade, the production of fishing nets, fish species found in our rivers and lakes, ancient fishing techniques, all this, in a relaxing environment close to the lake shore.

6. Malcantone Museum

Nucleo, Curio 6986 Switzerland +41 91 606 31 72 [email protected] http://www.museodelmalcantone.ch
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4.5 based on 3 reviews

Malcantone Museum

7. Galleria Baumgartner

Via Stefano Franscini 24, Mendrisio 6850 Switzerland +41 91 640 04 00 [email protected] http://www.galleriabaumgartner.ch/
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4.5 based on 70 reviews

Galleria Baumgartner

8. Sasso San Gottardo

Gotthardpass, Airolo 6781 Switzerland +41 844 116 600 [email protected] http://www.sasso-sangottardo.ch/
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4.5 based on 115 reviews

Sasso San Gottardo

9. Pinacoteca Casa Rusca

Antonio, piazza Sant' 5, Locarno 6600 Switzerland +41 91 756 31 85 http://www.ascona-locarno.com/it/commons/details/St%C3%A4dtische-Pinakothek-Casa-Rusca/2743.html
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4.5 based on 19 reviews

Pinacoteca Casa Rusca

10. Fondazione Monte Verita

Strada Collina 84, Ascona 6612 Switzerland +41 91 785 40 40 [email protected] http://www.monteverita.org/
Excellent
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4.5 based on 48 reviews

Fondazione Monte Verita

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