Tell-Museum

The Tell Museum owns the most comprehensive collection of documents, representations and objects of historical, artistic and original nature from six centuries about the Swiss freedom and national hero William Tell, embedded in the art-historical sights in the village center of Bürglen, which is protected as a historic site. It also has an important collection of the Basel painter Ernst Stückelberg (1831-1903), who had set up a studio in Bürglen and created the four large murals in the Tell chapel on the Lake of Uri.

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The myth in the foreground

The exhibition in the Tell Museum deals with the myth of the Swiss national hero and the question of what a hero/heroine is. In this way, a wide variety of objects from art, politics, tourism, historical research, society and advertising relating to the myth of Tell are displayed in a set box system, showing the changes in the perception of Tell over the course of 600 years. A film installation, which brings together and reflexively represents the conclusion of the exhibition, rounds off the experience in the Tell Museum.