Museums in Vaud

Because games act as great mediators between generations, the Swiss Games Museum is the family museum 'par excellence'.

The Historical Museum has the task of preserving the cultural heritage of Vevey and its surroundings. This charming museum offers a variety-filled tour on which regional themes and original collections alternate.

The cheese shop in Leysin is where traditional cheese is handmade under the "Le Leysin" label, using wood fires. The shop also acts as a small museum, presenting unique tools and equipment from a bygone alpine age.

Chillon Castle is located on a rock on the banks of Lake Geneva. The water castle is the most visited historic building in Switzerland. For nearly four centuries Chillon was the residence and profitable toll station of the Counts of Savoy.

In the future museum, a space devoted to cultural mediation will be directly accessible from the lobby – a place for creating, reading and sharing impressions of visits.

This is more than a museum: it is a lively place that never sleeps!

A time machine in the heart of Lausanne!

Located by Lake Geneva in Swiss Vevey, Alimentarium is the first museum in the world devoted exclusively to nutrition. A wonderful and educational vegetable garden also belongs to the museum.

Just 15 minutes by train from Lausanne, the second-largest art museum in the canton of Vaud, the Jenisch Vevey Museum, presents a varied programme of temporary exhibitions and a permanent collection of paintings – with works by Bocion, Courbet, Corot, Hodler, Vallotton, Picasso and Morandi – in a neoclassical setting.

The Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey displays cameras and photographs that date from the time of their invention to the present. The museum is housed in a historic building on the market square.