The Locarno region told through the treasures offered by the area’s museums

Land of cinema, music, art and architecture, but not only! Travel to Locarno on our railway and let yourself be enchanted by the wonderful museums in the region. MORE INFORMATION

Museum Casa Rusca Locarno

The Casa Rusca Museum, born from the restructuring of the city’s museums, replaces the previous Museum of Contemporary Art (Castello Visconteo) and is located in an 18th-century building restored and opened in 1987. Temporary exhibitions of Swiss and foreign artists are regularly held in the museum. When there are no exhibitions, the museum is closed to the public. It will reopen on Saturday, 15 March 2025. Opening Hours Tuesday – Sunday and public holidays: 10 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. Mondays: closed MORE INFORMATION

Casorella Museum Locarno

Located near the Castle, in Via B. Rusca, it is a 16th-century mansion built for the Lussy family, later enlarged by the Orelli dei Capitani (hence its second name of Casa degli Orelli= Casorella) and finally purchased by the Rusca family, who then handed it over to the City Council. Casorella presents the permanent collections of the City of Locarno from 2019, in particular Galassia – Arp, Giardino – Max Bill, Filippo Franzoni. Re-opening Saturday 5 April 2025. Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. Saturday – Sunday and public holidays: 10 a.m. – 4.30 p.m. Mondays: closed MORE INFORMATION

Locarno Castle Museum

Located in the medieval castle of the Visconti family, seat of the federal landowners from 1513 to 1798, the archaeological museum houses exhibits from the Locarno region from the late Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. The collection of Roman glassware discovered in the canton of Ticino is important: in fact, between the 1st and 4th centuries A.D. there were settlements of artisans and traders along the shores of Lake Verbano who had close relations with the great centres of Roman civilisation. The collection presented in the Museum, in the arrangement renovated in 1988, comprises around two hundred objects arranged in chronological order and grouped according to the context in which they were found. Reopening Saturday 5 April 2025. Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00 – 16:30 Saturday, Sunday and public holidays: 10:00 – 16:30 MORE INFORMATION

Marguerite Arp Foundation Solduno

Since 2015, the Arp Foundation has had a modern art storage and exhibition space at its Ronco dei Fiori site in Locarno-Solduno. The compact concrete construction (designed by architects Gigon&Guyer, Zurich) fits harmoniously into the complex formed by the studio-house and the garden, which have remained unchanged over the decades, and includes an art depository that meets the most modern conservation parameters and, on the first floor, an exhibition hall of synthetic proportions, capable of accommodating Arp’s elementary organic forms, where a new exhibition is presented each year. Opening hours: Sunday 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. Visits for groups on request. MORE INFORMATION