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Art and History Museum Neuchâtel

A treat for the eyes and a mirror on the world

The Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History is located on the elegant lakeside promenade right next to the Neuchâtel harbour. It is a place of pleasure, beauty and reflection, combining visual stimuli with a mission to better understand the world around us.

To mark its new permanent exhibition, the Museum of Art and History brings its collections into a dialogue from the perspective of movement. The tour highlights mobility in an innovative and interdisciplinary way, incorporating various unanswered questions, memories, stories and destinies.

You can travel comfortably to Neuchâtel by train. To get to the museum, you can take the bus or walk the short distance through the historic old town. 

Highlights

The beautifully situated museum is not only pleasing to the eye, but also thought-provoking. It presents the artistic and historical heritage in a permanent exhibition with selected collections (sculptural art, applied art, history, coins), in an exhibition on the thousand-year history of the town of Neuchâtel, and in temporary exhibitions.

Don’t miss

  • the paintings by Pierre-Eugène Bouvier,
  • the watch collections by Ferdinand Berthoud and Abraham-Louis Breguet, and
  • the famous automata by Pierre Jaquet-Droz dating from 1774. These androids represent a writer, a draughtsman and a musician and are still put into operation on the first Sunday of every month and on request. Marvel at the precision with which the automata were made using the means available at the time.

Opening hours Today (Saturday) open

Opening hours of the Museum of Art and History

Mon           closed
Tue–Sun    11.00–18.00 hours

Special closures:
28 and 29 September 2024 (Grape Harvest Festival)
24 and 25 December 2024
31 December 2024
1 January 2025

   
Subject to change without prior notice

Price

Admission fee

  • CHF 12.00 Adults
  • CHF 8.00 Residents
  • CHF 4.00 Students
  • CHF 4.00 AVS, unemployed
  • CHF 4.00 Military
  • CHF 4.00 Groups of 10 or more
  • CHF 4.00 Museum Tuesdays
  • CHF 4.00 Groups of students*
  • free of charge Children up to the age of 16
  • free of charge Neuchâtel museums card**, Cultural GA

    
*Groups of students from universities and other higher education institutions outside the canton of Neuchâtel

**CHF 40.00 per year / CHF 20.00 for students, AVS, unemployed

Free entry on Wednesdays

   
Prices in CHF incl. VAT / Prices and products subject to alteration

How to get there

Travel comfortably by train to Neuchâtel. The Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History is about 13 minutes walk from the station. Shorten the walk with a trip on the Funambule funicular railway.

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