The Engiadinaise Museum features a collection of historic grand rooms and parlors, and displays objects and building elements from the Engadin. It was built in 1906 by the architect Nicolaus Hartmann jun. on behalf of the collector and brewer Riet Campell from Susch. Throughout his life, Riet Campell collected culturally and historically valuable interiors from five centuries in order to save them from being sold off and make them accessible to the public. Nicolaus Hartmann jun. created a tailor-made building for these rooms. The objects and building elements that illustrate life in the parlours at the time also come from Campell's collection.
Then and now, the building reflects the idea of a typical Engadine house. As one of the oldest museums in Graubünden, it is not an authentic, historic building into which a collection has been integrated. Rather, the collection, together with the specially created building, forms a unique ensemble whose significance exceeds the sum of its individual pieces.
Museum Engiadinais, St. Moritz
Copyright: Photo: Daniel Martinek
Engadin Museum Night 2026
Temporary exhibition
Special exhibition “La montagna ammalata”
from July 15, 2026 - October 18, 2026:
The mountain landscape forms the natural backdrop to the Engadiner Museum collection and its stories. This gave rise to an interest in the works of the Ticino painter Cesare Lucchini. In his series of paintings La montagna ammalata (The Ailing Mountain), he explores the current state of the mountain world. His works address the visible consequences of climate change – a development that is all too evident to the people in the Alps, who experience these changes first-hand year after year.
