10 Museums in Canton of Ticino That You Shouldn't Miss

April 16, 2022 Janette Largent

This Italian-speaking region in Southern Switzerland is on the border with Italy. Bellinzona is the capital, and Lugano is the most important city in the canton, known for its beautiful waterfront, steep hillsides and gorgeous lake views. Castelgrande is a lovely medieval castle overlooking the city that has recently been restored. The Centovalli Railway is a scenic train that operates between Locarno, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, traveling through the breathtaking "Hundred Valleys." Lake Como is nearby, the home of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” George Clooney.
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1. Museo del Trasparente

Via municipio Casa Croci, Town Hall Square, Mendrisio 6850 Switzerland +41 58 688 33 50 http://www.museodeltrasparente.ch
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5.0 based on 7 reviews

Museo del Trasparente

2. Artrust SA

via Pedemonte di Sopra 1, Melano 6818 Switzerland +41 91 649 33 36 [email protected] http://www.artrust.ch
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5.0 based on 4 reviews

Artrust SA

3. Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia

riva Antonio Caccia 6a, Lugano 6900 Switzerland +41 91 980 08 88 [email protected] http://www.fondazionebraglia.ch/home.html
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5.0 based on 14 reviews

Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia

Reviewed By 532gerardr

Travelling through Switzerland to N Italy, we had a stop in Lugano. In Ticino, the city of Lugano surprised us with very nive museum exhibiting Expressionist art. Gabriele and Anna Braglia collected a series of expressionist paintings (Nolde, Kandinsky, Marc, Werefkin, and others) and we found joy in visiting 2018 Autumn exhibition of Braglia collection in collaboration with Henning collection. Very well composed, in high quality space. Take a look at the stairs, also.

4. OnArte

via San Gottardo 139, Minusio 6648 Switzerland +41 91 735 89 39 [email protected] http://www.onarte.ch
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OnArte

OnArte is an exhibition platform and video lounge for contemporary art. In six exhibitions per year different positions in the visual arts will be shown and socially intervening new formats will be investigated in. The Focus is on young artist's work as well as on the work of more established Ticinese, Swiss and international artists and artist collectives.

5. Perseo SA

via Vignalunga 15, Mendrisio 6850 Switzerland +41 91 646 55 47 [email protected] http://www.perseoartfoundry.com/
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Perseo SA

The PERSEO SA was founded in 1952 and has always been a meeting point for artists of international fame. The visit to the foundry will enable you to get to know some of the older techniques of fusion which have made the foundry a leader in Switzerland and to approach an artistic, craft activity of great value.

6. Castello di Montebello

via Artore 4, Bellinzona 6500 Switzerland +41 91 825 13 42 [email protected] https://www.ticino.ch/it/commons/details/Castello-di-Montebello/2796.html
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Castello di Montebello

Reviewed By jmplagman

We were looking for a nice place to go in Switzerland that will only be a few hours travel from Como and this popped up in our search. It only took us almost 2.5 hour to reach the Castle and it did not dissapoint. IThe place was beautiful and it has a perfect view of the other castles surrounding it.

7. Museo Del Caffe

Motta, via Giuseppe 2, Balerna 6828 Switzerland http://www.chiccodoro.ch/?fuseaction=m9.18
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Museo Del Caffe

8. Museo d'arte Mendrisio

Piazza San Giovanni, Mendrisio 6850 Switzerland +41 58 688 33 50 http://museo.mendrisio.ch/
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Museo d'arte Mendrisio

9. Museo di Valmaggia

Via Vantonale, Cevio 6675 Switzerland +41 91 754 13 40 [email protected] http://www.museovalmaggia.ch
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Museo di Valmaggia

10. Museo Vincenzo Vela

Largo Vela, Ligornetto 6853 Switzerland +41 58 481 30 40 [email protected] http://www.museo-vela.ch
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Museo Vincenzo Vela

The Vincenzo Vela Museum is one of the most important artists' house-museums to have been erected in nineteenth-century Europe. Conceived by the great realist sculptor Vincenzo Vela from Ticino (1820-91) at the height of his career, and transformed into a public museum after it was donated to the Swiss state, in addition to Vincenzo Vela's gallery of monumental plaster casts it includes the bequests of the sculptor Lorenzo Vela (1812-97) and painter Spartaco Vela (1854-95), a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Lombard and Piedmontese paintings, hundreds of autograph drawings and one of the earliest private collections of photographs in Switzerland.

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