Family-friendly Museums in Switzerland

Category: Museums

Fun museum for football fans filled history, videos, memorabilia, games and hands-on activities for all ages.

This open-air living museum in the beautiful Bernese alps lets you experience traditional Swiss rural life, with authentic buildings, trades and dress from the old days.

Museum of Communication in Bern

Fun museum with interactive exhibits relating to different forms of communication: speech, body language, post, digital media, etc. Better for older children and adults that can read.

Max Chocolatier – Workshop for chocolate connoisseurs

Visit a small family-owned premium chocolate producer in Lucerne, touring their atelier with one of their chocolatiers and creating a chocolate bar. Best for serious chocolate enthusiasts.

Maison Cailler Chocolate Factory

This chocolate factory near Gruyères in western Switzerland has a fun multimedia tour, free samples, chocolate workshops, Escape Game, and a fun playground to get your wiggles out.

Lake Geneva Region

Maestrani’s Chocolarium

Fun interactive discovery tour where you learn about chocolate making, see a live chocolate factory, sample chocolate, and make your own chocolate bar.

Emmental Show Dairy and Cheese-making

Learn about Swiss cheese making through history at this working dairy and museum, with a fun multimedia tour and live cheese making.

Gruyère Cheese Factory and Museum

Learn how gruyère, the most popular cheese in Switzerland, is made at this working dairy with small interactive museum.

Lake Geneva Region

Kambly Cookie Experience

Visit this Swiss cookie company to learn some history through fun multimedia displays and eat lots of free samples. They also offer children’s cookie making workshops.

Chez Camille Bloch • Swiss Chocolate Visitor Center

A fun visitor center for the maker of Ragusa and Torino chocolate, with a live chocolate making demonstration and tasting.

Zurich Zoological Museum

This free natural history museum has dozens of animal specimens to admire and lots of interactive displays with buttons to push. Easy choice for rainy days for Zürich city kids.

Fromagerie des Franches-Montagnes • cheese factory in the Jura

Visit this cheese factory in western Switzerland that produces Tête de Moine AOP, where you can watch live cheese production and learn from fun interactive displays.

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