Museum Engiadinais

A large collection of Engadine lifestyle culture

What was life like in the Engadine before the development of tourism? The answer to this question can be found in the Engadine Museum with over 4,500 exhibits which, together with the museum building itself, comprise a complete ensemble of Alpine lifestyle culture. The main point of the collection, that covers the entire stone pine room, is in the lifestyle culture of the 16th to 19th centuries. The Museum offers multilingual multimedia guides and hosts special exhibitions. The founder of the museum was Riet Campell (1866-1951), who was local researcher and brewer from Susch. The large house was built in 1906 in accordance with plans by Nikolaus Hartmann (1880-1956), who actually designed it as a museum. The idea was to be able to look back upon traditional Engadine lifestyle culture. The corresponding local style was also used by Nikolaus Hartmann in the cases of the St. Moritz Segantini Museum or the Alp Grüm and Hospiz stations on the Bernina railway line. Riet Campell, the founder of the museum, did not just collect single objects such as books, textiles or furniture but also entire interiors. The Museum houses aristocratic rooms taken from patrician houses, a middle-class kitchen with a large chimney and a Late Gothic bedchamber.

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