MiniMuseum Mürren
The first Swiss shop window museum.
The MiniMuseum offers anyone interested an insight into the history of Mürren. It presents topics of cultural and social historical significance and draws parallels with the present day. The MiniMuseum Mürren is a showcase exhibition that is renewed annually.
The 20th exhibition at the MiniMuseum Mürren is dedicated to music in the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Poems and songs have made the valley famous. From the archaic shepherds’ calls, the earliest folk music, Haller’s ‘Alpine Poem’ and Goethe’s ‘Song of the Spirits to the Waters’ in the 18th century, through ‘Petter (Gertsch), the Trombonist’, who lived in Mürren from 1750 to 1811, the introduction of the alphorn and accordion (from 1808), to the founding of village bands (founding of the Mürren Music Society in 1929), choirs, yodelling clubs, traditional costume groups, cowbell ringers, hotel bands, numerous small groups and individual musicians playing various musical styles, and finally the youth music and school band that nurture the next generation – music has a very long tradition in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, is deeply rooted and still very much alive!
