THE “SCHWEIZER STRAHLERMUSEUM”
The “Schweizer Strahlermuseum” aims to make visible the search for minerals in the Swiss mountains and to preserve this knowledge and skill in a documentary form in a museum.
Making visible:
- The passion of the crystal seeker: what makes the attraction of crystals, their beauty?
- Their craft: How do they go about recovering the crystals from the rock as unharmed as possible?
- Their knowledge: This knowledge has been guarded for centuries by mountain farmers as a family secret and is in danger of being lost.
- The tools: For their craft, the crystal seeker have developed their own tools, some of them very individual. We show these tools.
The knowledge:
- How were the crystals formed?
- What does a cleft look like?
- How, when, and where were they formed?
- Which are the most common minerals of the Swiss mountains?
- Where are the big finding areas?
But also:
- The history: already in Roman times, people searched for crystals in the Swiss mountains.
- The biggest findings in Switzerland.
- The representation of crystal seekers in art. Raphael Ritz has also dealt with crystal seeking.
- The economic importance of crystal seeking in the Swiss mountains.