ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum

The ALPS raises questions about current social issues, such as the environment, nature and climate change as they relate to urban and Alpine spaces, and encourages discussions when there are no easy answers. While the museum is open to all perspectives, but it is far from neutral: It uses its exhibitions and events to inspire the future-oriented planning of habitats and to move mountains together with its visitors.

The ALPS constantly surprises with new artistic and interactive formats, spinning threads of connection for culture vultures as well as a for a younger audience, families and school classes. The museum maintains a collection of Alpine cultural assets and acts as a platform for people and organisations dealing with Alpine themes.

A moving film installation with an original soundtrack from Greenland shows the radical changes and contradictions of our time: rapidly melting ice masses, a booming tourism industry, three new airports under construction, ever-growing mountains of rubbish, global investors in search of natural resources but also Greenland itself, confidently finding its way to an indigenous identity and independence. The changes taking place in Greenland are violent, turbulent and contradictory. What do the people of Greenland think? And what can they teach us about the world we live in? “Greenland. Everything is changing” represents a world that also exists and challenges us in Switzerland.

“Las alps” at ALPS is a neighbourhood pub and museum restaurant in one. There are two or three lunch menus a day, at least one of which is vegetarian, served with soup, salad and as much tap water as you like. For dessert, there are freshly baked goods and, in the summer, ice cream.

Instead of a lunch menu, savoury cheesecakes are served with soup and salad are served on weekends. The menu changes each time the exhibition changes.