The Kulturarchiv Oberengadin is a public institution that collects documents on the culture of the Engadine and makes them available to the public. The Kulturarchiv Oberengadin was founded in 1988 as an association in order to become a repository for documents relating to Engadine history. The Kulturarchiv was created on a private initiative and the Verein Kulturarchiv Oberengadin is responsible for the institution. The Upper Engadin municipalities, canton, federal government, foundations and private individuals support the archive financially.
Kulturarchiv Oberengadin, Zuoz
Permanent Exhibition
"Watch out, rabbits!"
is an exhibition in the Chesa Planta Zuoz on the cultural and historical examination of rabbits, based on exhibits from the collection of gamekeeper Pep Schaniel and drawings by artist Annamaria Reinalter. A pocket watch on display is reminiscent of the ever-delayed white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, an illustration from Pinocchio of the coffin-bearing rabbits, and finally a QR code links the exhibition to the short film clip from Monty Python's "Knights of the Coconut" and shows the infamous killer rabbit. This is related to the work of Annamaria Reinalter, whose rabbits have taken on increasingly threatening traits in the final stages of their lives.
Temporary exhibition
The villages of the Engadin at the turn of the century
The Upper Engadine Cultural Archive/Archiv Culturel d'Engiadin' Ota shows historical photographs of Engadine villages. The pictures are hung as negatives in a darkened room. Only when visitors illuminate the pictures with the flashlight function of their cell phones do they reveal their secrets.
