A heritage without barriers!

Discover some barrier-free offers of the UNESCO World Heritage in Switzerland!

Benedictine Convent of St. John in Müstair

Nowadays, the convent’s museum, the church with its frescoes, and the vast cellar of the Planta Tower are barrier-free accessible. Generally, the museum (ground-floor only), toilets and Convent shop are wheelchair-accessible containing ramps and wide doors.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms

• Ramps, and wide doors

• Wheelchair friendly toilets

Abbey of St. Gall

Its exhibition, including early medieval and Carolingian documents and the famous plan of St. Gall, as well as its Abbey library and cathedral, can be visited with a wheelchair. Further, the Abbey of St. Gall provides wheelchairs and clear and recognisable signs.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms

• Wheelchair-friendly toilets

• Wheelchair lending possible

• Clear, recognisable signs

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch

At the World Nature Forum in Naters (Valais), you will receive barrier-free an overview of the World Heritage region, get acquainted and understand the high alpine scenery with its exciting history and its natural and cultural landscapes. The exhibition is designed as the base camp of the World Heritage property, with thrilling films, interactive experience stations, infographics, and artefacts. The exhibition, restaurant and toilets are wheelchair accessible and contain large entrance doors and a passenger elevator.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms and passenger lift

• Wheelchair-friendly toilets and restaurant

• Large entrance doors

Monte San Giorgio

The great diversity of creatures that populated the sea and its coast in southern Ticino around 240 million years ago is presented on four floors at the Fossil Museum in Meride. Thanks to virtual and augmented reality, you can immerse yourself barrier-free in the Triassic Sea and admire the animals of that time. The museum, its parking lots and its toilets are wheelchairs accessible.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms and passenger lift

• Wheelchair-friendly toilets

• Wheelchair-friendly parking spaces

Rhaetian Railway

Railway enthusiasts can admire barrier-free pioneering creations at close quarters at the Albula Railway Museum in Bergün.  Decommissioned station clocks, historical documents and engineering plans illustrate the history and importance of the spectacular UNESCO World Heritage route. The Albula Railway Museum is a wheelchair-accessible museum where also guided tours with simplified languages are taking place. Further, the Rhaetian Railway (Bernina Express) offers wide seats for wheelchair users that must be booked in advance to provide an exceptional journey to everyone.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms

• Wheelchair-friendly toilets

• Simplified language

• Wheelchair-friendly seats (on the train)

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Watchmaking Town Planning

This urban town planning can be unravelled in the” Espace de l’urbanisme horloger”: The UNESCO World Heritage can be discovered through multimedia presentations, and an impressive exhibition featuring this unique urban design. The visitor centre as well as the “Château des Monts” are wheelchair accessible.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms

Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps

The collections on display at the Laténium, the reconstructed pile dwellings in the Archaeological Park and the scientific examinations carried out here have made the museum one of the main centres of research for enhancing and safeguarding this archaeological heritage that is of global importance. It is wheelchair-accessible, hast lifts, ramps, and broad parking spaces. Further, simplified language and bright lightening are applied. Guide dogs are allowed to enter the exhibition halls to provide a barrier-free visit to everyone.

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• Wheelchair accessible rooms and passenger lift

• Wheelchair-friendly toilets

• Ramps

• Wheelchair friendly parking spaces

• Guide dogs are allowed

• Simplified language and bright lighting

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