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
Temporary exhibition
From July 15 to October 18, 2026, the Museum Engiadinais will present the special exhibition “THE SICK MOUNTAIN” by the Ticino painter CESARE LUCCHINI.
Set within the museum’s atmospheric historic rooms, the exhibition engages in a fascinating dialogue with the cultural memory of the Engadin and a style of painting deeply rooted in the present.
For more than sixty years, Lucchini has devoted himself to artistic work that focuses on the relationship between people, history, and landscape. In this new series of works, the mountain becomes the true protagonist—not as a classic Alpine vista, but as a vulnerable organism marked by environmental changes and the tensions of our time. Melting glaciers, eroded surfaces, cracks, and traces of decay convey an image of a fragile natural world that is visibly and subtly shaped by human influence.
In addition to large-format paintings, the exhibition also features works on paper with a distinctive materiality, in which themes and motifs from Lucchini’s long-standing body of work recur. His paintings, constructed from layers of paint, collages, and a wide variety of materials, oscillate between stillness and expressive tension, transforming the Alpine landscape into a powerful metaphor for the present.
The Ailing Mountain offers the audience an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between nature, memory, and collective responsibility through an intense dialogue between contemporary art and the historical heritage of the Alpine region.
