Museum Nutli Hüschi

The Prättigau farmhouse and mill museum

The Nutli Hüschi Museum in Klosters includes a farmhouse and outbuildings for livestock, reconstructed to show how a typical Walser smallholding would still have looked up until the early 20th century. The house, which dates from 1565, and the 18th¢ury livestock building are used to exhibit a collection of traditional objects and utensils from the 17th to the 19th century. The house’s unusual name, Nutli Hüschi, comes from the man who built it: Christian Nutli. The upper floor of the building is also home to a collection of ceramics from the historical St. Antönier potteries in Lötscher, along with items of antique furniture that would originally have graced grand bourgeois townhouses. The museum complex likewise includes, at ten minutes’ walking distance from the main Nutli Hüschi house, an antique flour mill. This pre-industrial grain mill, powered by an overshot waterwheel, is the only remaining example of more than twenty that once stood in Klosters. The Nutli Hüschi Museum shows what family life would once have been like on a typical Prättigau smallholding. The museum is also home to a collection of antique ceramics and historical furniture, including a sideboard and chest dating from the 17th century. The museum complex likewise includes the old overshot waterwheel grain mill, which completes this historical portrayal of the bygone agricultural life of Prättigau.

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