Video Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

For several decades now, research in the lacustrine environment has made a decisive contribution to illustrating the past in very concrete terms. Our knowledge of ...

A short film by the Swiss Commission for UNESCO

Criterion (iv): The series of prehistoric Pile Dwelling sites are one of the most important archaeological sources for the study of early agrarian societies ...

The collision of Africa and Europe has piled up the Alps over millions of years. Nowhere else are the traces of these mighty forces as visible as in the mountain ...

The striking cathedral forms an impressive historical ensemble along with the Abbey library and Abbey archive. More about it

The mountain is the best testimonial to sea life from the Triassic period. The 240-million-year-old history of these forms of life can be experienced at the Museum ...