Museum Laufental - Laufen, BL, Switzerland - History Museums on Waymarking.com

Museum Laufental is located in a former school at Heyleplatz in the northwest of the medieval center of Laufen.

The beginning of the museum is dated back to WWII. Due to a number of bombs that hit Switzerland by mistake, the authorities of Laufen ordered the residents to get rid of burnable goods stored in their attics. Three local citizens - Leo Segginger, Werner Fuchs and Leo Schumacher - found a lot of objects in the resulting trash heaps they considered important local heritage that should be conserved for future generations. They stored the goods in a barn and founded a museum association. After 1945 they could use some spare rooms in the town hall for exhibitions. During the decades the rooms became too small until finally in 1977 a new location was found in a historic former school from 1828 near the northern town gate.

Today the museum hosts special exhibitions that change each year - traditionally on November 11th - and a number of permanent collections:
- Fossils
- Neolithic and Mesolithic Relics
- findings from an Ancient Roman villa
- a collection of Nativity scenes
- Helias Helye - Switzerland's first book printer
- the painter August Cueni
- family life in the 19th century
- historic firearm production
- history of local craft, trade and agriculture

Theme: All aspects of local history from archaeology to social history, and some local art and craft as well. Street Address: Museum Laufental Helyeplatz 4242 Laufen Food Court: no Gift Shop: no Hours of Operation: 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month, 14:00 - 16:30 Cost: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Small Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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