Museo Casa Console
Art museum in a patrician house on the Piazza Comunale in Poschiavo, with paintings of German Romanticism and Swiss painting of the 19th century.
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About the museum
Casa Console is a 19th-century patrician house in the village center of Poschiavo. It takes its name from Antonio Semadeni, who served as the Swiss consul in Warsaw. Inside, the original furnishings and partly gilded stucco ceilings have been preserved; on a balcony on the second floor stands a bronze statue of the young Mozart by Ernest Barrias.
The art collector Ernesto Conrad, born in Budapest in 1927 and for many years co-owner of a Munich publishing group, moved to Poschiavo in the early 1980s. In 2002 he founded the foundation that bears his name, bought Casa Console and had it restored, so that the art museum could open in December of the same year. On that occasion, the municipality of Poschiavo made him an honorary citizen.
The core of the collection was paintings from Conrad's own holdings. Since then it has been steadily expanded with works of Romanticism and now comprises more than one hundred oil paintings and drawings from the period in which the house was built. Represented are painters of German Romanticism such as Carl Spitzweg, Eduard von Grützner, Franz von Defregger, Franz von Lenbach and Johann Friedrich Voltz, as well as Swiss artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries such as Alexandre Calame, Benjamin Vautier and Giovanni Segantini. In the concert hall on the fourth floor, the foundation also hosts concerts, painting courses and other cultural events.
Highlights
- Paintings of German Romanticism, including numerous works by Carl Spitzweg
- Swiss painting by Calame, Vautier and Segantini
- 19th-century patrician house with gilded stucco ceilings
- Bronze statue of the young Mozart on the balcony
- Concerts in the hall on the fourth floor
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione permanente – More than one hundred oil paintings and drawings of German Romanticism and Swiss painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries, from Spitzweg and Grützner to Calame and Segantini.
- Founded
- 2002
- Operated by
- Fondazione Ernesto Conrad
Admission & discounts
| Adults | CHF 10 |
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| Reduced | CHF 8Groups of 10 or more people, students and apprentices |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 16 · Children and young people up to 16 years old enter free. |
| Students & apprentices | CHF 8Also for apprentices. |
| Groups (10+ people) | CHF 8 per person |
| Guided tour during opening hours (max. 15 people) | CHF 50Flat fee per tour, plus the reduced admission per person. |
| Guided tour outside opening hours (max. 15 people) | CHF 100Flat fee per tour, plus the reduced admission per person. |
Free admission with the Swiss Museum Pass, Raiffeisen MemberPlus, Raiffeisen YoungMemberPlus and the Gästekarte Valposchiavo Plus.
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Getting there & parking
By public transit
Poschiavo · 10-min walk
From Poschiavo station of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), it is about a 10-minute walk to the village center.
The museum is on the Piazza Comunale in the village center of Poschiavo.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Guided tours in Italian, German, French and English; reservation at least one week in advance. Tours are also possible outside opening hours. |
