Gift Guide • Vintage Switzerland Travel Posters

If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that I have a big collection of vintage travel posters, many of our favorite mountains in Switzerland. I often find these at the cable car ticket offices or nearby gift shops. But you can get many online as well.

Below I’ve highlighted some online shops both in and outside Switzerland where you can buy these travel posters. I’ve also linked to some of my favorite posters at these shops. These posters would be great gifts for anyone in your life that loves Switzerland.

Jungfrau Region posters

The Jungfrau.ch website has a few vintage posters including this fantastic one of Schynige Platte, which I bought today, and this Grindelwald poster which is already hanging in my home. Brienzer Rothorn sells a 60x100cm poster, which looks amazing.

Do the hikes: Schynige Platte ridge trail and Grindelwald First Bachalpsee

Zermatt posters

Red Bubble sells a wide variety of Zermatt posters, including these two beauties below. Red Bubble isn’t located in Switzerland, so you might get a customs bill if you order over the limit.

See also family hikes in Zermatt

Engadin region posters

The Engadin tourism website has a eShop selling vintage travel posters from the region very inexpensively, only CHF 9. We like these posters of St Moritz and Muottas Muragl. 

See also Favorite hikes in Engadin

Ticino posters

I love these Ticino posters so much! I’ve put both of these on my wish list for this Christmas. You can easily buy it on the Ticino tourism website, which has several others and postcard versions.

See also Tips for visiting the Bellinzona castles

Gstaad posters

Müller Medien is selling a few Gstaad posters including these two that I like. But first I have to go skiing in Gstaad, then I can justify buying the posters.

Switzerland Postcard Collections

We love this postcard book with 40 vintage posters, all from Switzerland. I have many of these hanging up in my home.

This pack Meine Schweiz, Meine Eisenbahn has 100 postcards of Switzerland SBB travel posters (this is an affiliate link). I already have a lot but I think I’ll have to buy this so I can have the complete collection. Thanks to Kate of Mom in Zurich for the tip.

WallArty shop

This Etsy shop has so many Switzerland travel posters, it’s almost unbelievable. I’m so curious how they got the rights to reproduce these. The posters are affordable and they do ship to Switzerland (from Turkey), but you’ll have to probably pay customs.

I put almost CHF 400 of posters in my shopping cart last night but I don’t think I’ll pull the trigger. Here are a few I love: Niesenbahn, Stoos, Lenzerheide, Silvaplana, Elm, Brienzer Rothorn

Modern Switzerland Posters

Some modern artists are creating posters in that retro style. Juniqe is selling this cool poster of Zermatt by Henry Rivers and posters of Zürich and Geneva by Katinka Reinke.

We like this Zermatt poster from NickStudios. It ships from the UK.

Zazzle.ch for postcards

Zazzle sells both posters and inexpensive postcard versions of many Switzerland travel posters. You can get the postcards for about CHF 2-3, which means I can buy many more than I can posters. I ordered these last year: Les Diablerets, Monte Generoso, Muottas Muragl. They ok, but honestly, the quality is not amazing. 

Amazon sellers

Amazon has a bunch of vendors selling travel posters. But the vendors look sketchy to me (new shops, no reviews) so I’m not sure I trust that as a source. Search “vintage travel posters Switzerland” and see for yourself. 

Original Vintage Posters

If you are a serious collector, here are a few websites selling original vintage Switzerland travel posters for high prices, from CHF 500 – 4000 or more. 

• Artfiche – the “leading art gallery for Swiss poster design”
• Placart
• Poster Team
• Posters we love
• Poster Group

Frames

On my Instagram stories, I posted pics of my posters in frames and lots of people asked where I got them. I use the Ribba frames from IKEA, which come with a white mat. I use mostly the 30×40 and 50×60 sizes. You print the photos smaller to fit in the mat (20×30 and 30×40 respectively).

These frames have plastic panes, not glass. This makes them much lighter and therefore easier to hang. But the plastic can easily get scratched. They currently come in white and black. For the birch color, you could get the Hovsta frames.

I used tesa adhesive nails to hang the posters and pics. I recently did an ad for tesa on my social media, but this is not a sponsored post. I just really like the product since it solves the difficulty of drilling holes into the concrete of my rented apartment. You stick an adhesive strip on the wall and press for 5 seconds. Then you apply the plastic nail to the strip and press for 5 seconds. Then you hang up the frame.

Couldn’t be easier. I used the nails that are rated to 1kg but you can get ones that will hold up to 3kg. My walls are slightly textured and it works fine. I tried on my kitchen wall, which is heavily textured and so far, it’s working fine. At the moment, Galaxus is selling multi-packs for a discount.

Printing Photos

I also hang our own Swiss mountain pics around the house. Many of you asked where I print these photos. I use Printolino, which is an independent shop near Luzern. They have many different types of paper you can use for prints. I selected the Poster / Fineart-Print option, then the Fotopapier Seidenmatt 240g. The prices are fair and processing/shipping quick.

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