Alimentarium

CH-1800 Vevey
Quai Perdonnet/Rue du Léman 1
Phone +41 21 924 41 11
Fax +41 21 924 45 63

At the Alimentarium ‘Museum of Food’ their focus is strictly food, modern and historical, as well as scientific and ethnological. The garden located in the museum has a variety of food plants representing the various seasons and regions of Switzerland. The museum is open all week, except during the summer, in which it is closed on Mondays. Located in Vevey off Leman street 15 minutes by foot from the train station.

Audiorama

CH-1820 Montreux-Territet
Avenue de Chillon 74
Phone +41 21 963 22 33
Fax +41 21 963 02 94

Explore the mystical and scientific museum of Audiorama, the museum of audio-visual entertainment. Here you will discover the inner workings of the radio, television, gramophone and other audio-visual born inventions. This is an outstanding collection of objects of historical value and a must see tourists visiting this region. Open all week except Mondays, small entrance fee, children 16 and younger enter free of charge. No reservation necessary.

Château de Chillon

CH-1820 Territet-Veytaux
Avenue de Chillon 21
Phone +41 21 966 89 10
Fax +41 21 966 89 12

Château de Chillon is one of the most beautiful historic buildings in Switzerland, on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, next to Montreux. An extraordinary medieval fort set in a lovely scenic location! No Swiss historic monument is better known throughout the world. It has become a symbol of the Swiss, representative of its beauty, the harmony of its shape and the visible strength and stability it exudes. Built on the water's edge, Chillon is unique with one side a fortress facing the ancient road to Italy, the other a princely residence facing the Lake of Geneva.

Chillon Castle is closed 2 days a year: 1st January, and the 25th of December. Hours of operation are January, February, November, and December: 10 am to 4 pm. March and October: 9:30 am to 5 pm. April through September: 9 am to 6 pm. Prices range from 3 Euros to 53 Euros depending on the individuals age and group rates.

Chemin de Fer Musée Blonay-Chamby

CH-1001 Lausanne
Case postale 366
Phone +41 21 943 21 21
Fax +41 21 943 22 21

Enjoy an historical journey through the countryside of the Geneva Lake Region. Ride these Fantastic locomotives from the towns of Blonday to Chamby. You will be dazzled by the countryside views as you dine in aboard one of the train’s restaurants. Don't forget to explore the the living museum, where you'll see the trains that once traveled this region huffing and puffing on a daily basis.

Mines de sel de Bex

CH-1880 Bex
Route des Mines-de-Sel
Case postale 277

At the Salt mines of Bex you will explore the exceptional underground museum of the Swiss mountains.

Museum of old Montreaux

CH-1820 Montreux 3
Rue de la Gare 40
Phone +41 21 963 13 53
Fax +41 21 963 13 53

The collection of the History Museum is housed in a 17th century building in the Old Town. Four main themes, relating to the region's development, are dealt with, from the Dawn of History to the Age of Tourism:

* History, Roman remains, old coins
* Local artifacts, furniture and items of everyday life
* Tourism, vigor and expansion of the hotel trade and that of the town
* Distinguished visitors, biographies and documents concerning their stay in this area.

Historical museum of the Old man-Vevey

CH-1800 Vevey
Rue du Château 2
Phone +41 21 921 07 22
Fax +41 21 921 07 22

Historical museum of the Old man-Vevey and Museum of the Brotherhood of the Vine growers. Opened March to October from 10:30 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5:30 pm, November to February from 2 pm to 5:30 pm, closed Monday.

Jenisch museum

CH-1800 Vevey
Avenue de la Gare 2
Phone +41 21 921 34 01
Fax +41 21 921 62 92

At the Jenisch Museum in alternation with temporary exposures of contemporary art, the collections of the Museum of the fine arts of Vevey, which includes tables of Bocion, Hodler, Music, Valenti, Alechinsky among others, and those of the Foundation Kokoschka Oscar. On the ground floor, the cantonal Cabinet of the prints reserves two rooms with the temporary exposures. Its collection of engravings from the Renaissance to today, with accents on Dürer, Rembrandt and Corot.

Opened March to October from 11 am to 5:30 pm and November to February from 2 pm to 5:30 pm.

Musée Olympique Lausanne

CH-1001 Lausanne
Quai d'Ouchy 1, case postale
Phone +41 (0)21 621 65 11
Fax +41 (0)21 621 65 12

Here, the Olympic Games never stop!

The Olympic Museum of Lausanne is the greatest information center in the world on the Olympic movement and its ideals. It is here that you will live again as if you were all strong times there, memorable, of the Olympic Games. A visit not to be missed!

Single, alive and interactive

Permanent exposures: great moments of the Olympic Movement - Olympic ideal in Antiquity - modern Olympic Games of summer and winter - spaces philatelic and numismatic - and in the large garden sculptures of Chillida, Botero, Berrocal, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tàpies, etc. Temporary exposures: Nag Arnoldi. The man and the myth - For a certain ideal. 17 tapestries of Jean-Rene Sautour-Strapping man - the Turn of France and well of others still...

Exclusive

The visitors can admire, in three dimensions, of the video sequences of the Plays of Nagano 1998. Each one can become member of the Association of the Friends of the Olympic Museum and the children from 9 to 15 years have the possibility of being registered with the Pyrsos Club. Both give right a chart of member for the admission free to the Olympic Museum during one year.

Infrastructures and services for congresses and various demonstrations

We have of an auditorium of 170 places and five conference rooms with installations with the signal level as well as restaurant with terrace and un spoilable view on the Alps and the Lake Léman, of a shop, a library and a video library, an Olympic Center of studies and an educational service for the schools.

Musée suisse de l'appareil photographique

CH-1800 Vevey
Ruelle des Anciens-Fossés 6
Phone +41 21 925 21 40
Fax +41 21 921 64 58

The Swiss museum of Photography is a collection of photographic apparatuses. Richly illustrated, the museum is equipped with audio-visual and interactive installations in German and English.

Hours of operation: March-October, from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 5:30 pm November-February, from Tuesday to Sunday from 2 pm with 5:30 pm closed Monday (except Easter Monday, the Pentecost, and the federal Fast and non-working Mondays).

Nouveau Musée Ruzo

CH-1820 Montreux-Territet
Av. de Naye 16-20
Phon +41 21 963 55 49
Fax +41 21 963 55 59

Switzerland and the canton of Vaud can be particularly happy and proud that there exists, on the heights of Montreux-Territet, dominating the lake Léman, a high place of Art and humanism, being expressed through an immense work. Victor Ruzo is incontestably one of the great creators of the Contemporary art.

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