Museum zu Allerheiligen

Baumgartenstrasse 6, 8200 Schaffhausen

Openings:

Tue – Sun: 11.00 – 17.00

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The permanent archaeological exhibition includes a model of the bog settlement at Thayngen-Weier, which has been recreated based on the excavation results and the scientific analyses. Various themes illustrated by the model are shown on a touch screen providing information about the settlement features, the architectural history and individual finds. The presentation of the rich finds from the settlement revolves mainly around the wooden artefacts: ladles, bowls and dishes in all production stages including finished objects, a complete bow, a fragment of a child’s bow, the shaft of an arrow including an arrowhead and remnants of fletching. New finds have provided a context and new interpretation for preserved ceramic knobs: female breasts originally applied to loam-plastered and painted house walls.

Museum Yverdon und Region

Le Château, CP 968 , 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains

Openings:

October - Mai:
Tue – Sun: 14.00 – 17.00

June - September:
Tue – Sun: 11.00 – 17.00

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The prehistoric hall presents an array of finds from the pile-dwellings in north Canton Vaud, covering the entire period from the Late Stone Age (4000 BC) to the end of the Bronze Age (850 BC). The paintings by the Yverdon artist P. Savary of some of the finds being used in everyday situations provide a vivid impression of what life would have been like at the time. Particularly worth mentioning with regard to the Bronze Age finds is a dugout canoe – at 12 m one of the longest in Switzerland – which was found in Corcelettes (VD) in 1880.

Musée d`art et d`histoire

Rue Charles Galland 2, 1206 Genève

Openings:

Tue – Sun: 10.00 – 18.00

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The Musée d’art et d’histoire de la Ville de Genève houses almost 47,000 prehistoric finds. Several thousand came from pile-dwelling sites around the lower basin of Lake Geneva and date from both the Late Stone Age and the Late Bronze Age. A selection of several dozens artefacts from the sites at Plonjon, Eaux-Vives, Pâquis and d'Anières-Bassy as well as Collonge-Bellerive and Corsier-Port have been on display in the new regional archaeology hall since 2009. The finds are accompanied by 10^th century BC piles from Plonjon and a dugout canoe from Morges, which was recently dated to 1326 BC.