With a tour through the exciting exhibitions in the Alpine Museum Braunwald you will experience the fascination of the Glarus mountains - their nature, their culture and of course their stories.

Experience the fascination of the Glarus mountains in a modern and compact way. The museum begins with the unique geology of Glarus, which takes you on a unique Swiss journey through time of over 300 million years. You will encounter the oldest fossils and dinosaur tracks in Switzerland and enter the only Swiss volcano park. You will learn more about the Glarus main overthrust, the centerpiece of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Tectonic Arena Sardona, which you can see with the naked eye on the opposite house stock.

The tour continues to the beginnings of mountaineering. To the SAC-Tödi as the founding section of the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) and the construction of the Grünhornhütte, the first SAC hut in Switzerland. It is visible from the museum on a clear day. To the Glarus Mountain Guides Association, as the oldest in Switzerland. Listen to what Wildi, Hans and Sämi have to tell. About the history of the Via Glaralpina, the first long-distance hiking trail, which circles the canton of Glarus across all vegetation levels and thus connects huts, hotels and inns. The hut warden of the Planurahütte SAC and the hut warden of the Glärnischhütte SAC also tell about their everyday life in a hut.

A special story begins with the Glarus Ski Club, which was the first ski club in Switzerland to be founded in Glarus in 1893. The tour tells of the making of the first skis and the first Swiss competitions in Glarus, of Rösli Streiff from Glarus as the first ski world champion, of ski legend Vreni Schneider, the best sportswoman in Switzerland, and Patrick Küng, the downhill world champion. But also of the local Kessler-Swiss, which manufactures skis and snowboards that are among the best in the world.

A small temporary exhibition can be found in the center of the museum, each highlighting a specific theme. And along the window front, with an impressive view of the surrounding mountain and glacier world, the Biferten glacier is explained to you in more detail. In this historic Tödi region.


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