Museum d'Engiadina Bassa Scuol

The regional museum of the Lower Engadine

The Museum d’Engiadina Bassa gives a comprehensive view of how agricultural community lived in the Lower Engadine until mid of 20th century. A topic that is specially emphasised is arable farming, which defined a good third of all agricultural areas in the Lower Engadine until after the Second World War. The museum in the Chà Gronda presents the historical lifestyle culture and the forms of economic activity as work processes and thus clarifies the then daily life. The museum houses an exhibition covering the first settlements in the Lower Engadine, as well as copies of the very first Rhaeto&Romanic bible, which was printed at Scuol in 1679. The museum also shows an annual special exhibition. The Chà Gronda with its three&storey summer house essentially has its origins in the years 1702-1704. The erstwhile patrician house variously contains three large lounges from varying epochs and the rooms are filled with antiquities. In the commercial part of the house, special displays show how the cattle and harvest were sheltered in the winter. Show-pieces of the museum’s own library are the Rhaeto-Romanic bibles from 1679 and 1743.

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