Museum Engiadinais, St. Moritz

The Museum Engiadinais consists of a collection of historic rooms and parlors and displays objects and building elements from the Engadin. It was built by the architect Nicolaus Hartmann jun. on behalf of the collector and brewer Riet Campell from Susch (1906). 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. Riet Campell also collected the objects and building elements that were used to stage life in the parlors at the time.

The building corresponds exactly to the then (and now) idea of an ideal Engadine house. One of the oldest museums in Grisons is not an authentic, time-honored building into which a collection has been integrated. The collection is combined with buildings created especially for it to form a unique ensemble whose relevance is greater than the sum of the collection items.