Schweizer Strahlermuseum

The Swiss Crystal Seeker Museum

The aim of the Swiss Crystal Seeker Museum is to make blasting, the search for minerals in the Swiss mountains, visible and to preserve this knowledge and skill in a museum.

Making visible:

The passion of the crystal seekers: what is it that makes crystals so attractive, so beautiful?
Their craft: How do they go about recovering the crystals from the rock as unharmed as possible?
Your knowledge: This knowledge has been guarded for centuries by crystal seekers as a family secret and is in danger of being lost.
The tools: The crystal seekers have developed their own tools for their craft, some of them very individual. We show this one.

The knowledge:

How were the crystals formed?
What does a cleft actually look like?
How, when and where did they originate?
What are the most common minerals in the Swiss mountains?
Where are the big finding areas?

But also:

The history: as early as Roman times, people were searching for crystals in the Swiss mountains.
The largest finds in Switzerland.
The representation of crystal seekers in art. Raphael Ritz has also dealt with crystals.
The economic importance of crystal seekers in the Swiss mountains.

Newly published:
Published by the Swiss Crystal Seekers Museum in collaboration with the Swiss Association of Crystal Seekers, Mineral and Fossil Collectors, the “Book of Passion – Crystal Seekers Tell of Their Tours”.

Blurb

What drives radiators, i.e. those who search for minerals in the mountains? Perhaps we can guess the joy they had when they recovered the crystal. But we have not yet captured the passion to keep going up and looking for what is not easy to find. This book attempts a variant approach to the question of passion that is not answered by any scientific work on minerals. Thus it gathers very different accounts of successes and failures, of suffering and seeking, and it contains a conversation with a radiator that allows an unusually open view into the soul of a crystal seeker.

The book costs 25 francs plus 5 francs for shipping.
Order the book directly from us at info@kristallsucher.ch.

This three-minute video gives you a brief insight into the museum:

Guest comments

Rotary Club Brig

The guided tour of the Crystal Seeker Museum with Reinhard Eyer was very informative and he was able to introduce the non-experts to the world of crystals with a lot of passion and in an understandable and impressive way. A big thank you to Reinhard for his extremely successful tour. Also a big praise to Kilian Schnyder and his wife, who spoiled our palate with their fine local products. It was a very successful event.

Barbara Chuck

I was surprised by the high quality and the aesthetic arrangement of the themes. The detailed introduction provided a lot of interesting information. I was particularly touched by the film. Here, many images of my childhood came to life, because I often accompanied my parents to the rays in the Lötschental or Gasterntal and experienced the excitement when a cleft was found. Later, the great moments when we unpacked, washed and cleaned the stones at the well trough in the evening. I would like to thank the association: you have realised a great project.

Kathrin von Peschke

Crystals wherever the eye looks. Diversity in size, location and radiance. A good place to think about the natural wealth of our nature.

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Schweizer Strahlermuseum
Felsenweg 100
3904 Naters

info@kristallsucher.ch

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Schweizer Strahlermuseum
Silvia Eyer
Felsenweg 14
3904 Naters

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