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E. was rebuilt into a «Bibliocabina». The motto is: pick, bring, keep or exchange. Books may be taken for free, read and kept or returned and exchanged. You take an interesting book and / or put a readed book on the rack. Have fun browsing the book exchange cabin and reading. A larger selection of books can be found in the Biblioteca Engiadinaisa in Sils Baselgia.

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Visit a welcoming and cosy space with a view of the Piz da la Margna and Lake Sils, while enjoying more than 20,000 media in German, Romansh, French, English and Italian.

Browse the huge range, which includes fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young people’s literature, audio books, music CDs, DVDs, e-book readers, maps, newspapers and magazines. A PC and internet workstations, a printer and a copier are also available. If you prefer your internet on the move, there’s also free wi-fi throughout the building.

Free admission.

More Information:
www.bibliotecasegl.ch

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• Books
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• PC and Internet stations
• Magazines
• Newpapers

Opening hours

closed: from 06. May 2024 to 26. May 2024

open: from 27. May 2024 to 30. October 2024
Monday - Friday 10.00am - 11.30am / 3.00pm - 6.00pm
Thursday 10.00am - 11.30am / 3.00pm - 9.00pm
Saturday - Sunday closed

open: from 20. December 2024 to 05. May 2024
Monday - Friday 10.00am - 11.30am / 3.00pm - 6.00pm
Thursday 10.00am - 11.30am / 3.00pm - 9.00pm
Saturday - Sunday closed

People from Sils interested in quarrying stone slabs concluded a concession agreement with the municipality of Sils on 17 April 1864. However, stone slabs had probably been quarried there much earlier. In the contract it was pointed out that the right of the inhabitants of Sils to quarry slabs for their buildings in the Fex Valley was not to be diminished by the concession contract. An old Engadine house, the former post office in Sils-Maria, which bore the date 1659 and unfortunately had to make way for today's post office square, was covered with beautiful Fexer slabs on the roof. These can be admired today in the hotel/restaurant Chesa Grischa in Sils-Baselgia. The importance of the Fexer tiles was based on the fact that they could be split very thin, up to about 15 mm thick. Therefore, because of the weight saving, they were the ideal means of covering roofs. The stone - a gneiss (mica slate containing minerals) - can only be split in winter when frozen. So some men from nearby Val Malenco and Sils had a modest but welcome income in winter. Today, the Fexer slabs are highly sought after, especially because of their beautiful colours. Museum only open on Tuesdays with guided tour of the quarry, which takes place from 13.00 - 14.30.

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In the new exhibition "ORIENT-OKZIDENT" new works from Germany will be hung in the extended gallery rooms.

SAX, civic Herbert Baerlocher, born on 15.08.43, grew up in Basel. After studying art history and modern poetry, he experimented with body expression with theatre and music groups.

From 1973 he lives in Kyôto, Japan, where he learns ink painting with Hiromoto Susumu. In the technique of the un-pitsu brush movement his urge for spontaneous pictorial forms finds fulfilment. His works in colour on canvas and in Japanese ink on paper are shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and Hawaii from 1978 to 2000.

Since 1997 SAX has been painting in the Fextal, Engadin, and from 2013 in Weimar and from 2015 in the 'Fränkische Schweiz'. At the end of 2019 he moves to Sils-Maria, Engadin, Tel. +41 76 203 03 38

The gallery was created from the collaboration of Hans-Ueli Gantenbein, the farmer from the Sar Antoni farm at the Hotel Fex, and the artist Sax, whose studio is located across the stream in Tegias. The former barn in the basement of the Chalchais barn was converted into an art space when the ceiling was renewed.

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The gallery is located in the Fex Valley in Fex Curtins in the Chalchais building on the left in front of the Hotel Fex.

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• Alpine living and living culture

WALTER HAYMANN, oil paintings Engadin - Bergell

DANIEL EGGLI, new wood sculptures

BEATRICE GUYER, gouaches Engadin - Provence

KATHARINA LEUTERT, Sculpture Plume sur bois et pigment colorés, Artiste Suisse

53 years Goldsmiths' Studio Rudolf Maag, new and old jewellery

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"Museum" and "dusty" do not have to be synonyms. Interested groups (4 persons or more) have the opportunity to put together their own daily or weekly programme from the range of guided tours, cultural hikes, lectures/readings and seminars on literary, philosophical, art and cultural history topics. The individual programme elements can be freely combined in number and sequence and can be adapted to the interests of the group on request. You will be offered a lively and entertaining access to the diversity of the Engadine museum landscape.

Guided tours are offered in the following museums: Nietzsche House (Sils) link: Nietzsche House , Segantini Museum (St. Moritz) link: Segantini Museum, Sils Museum - Cultural Foundation Andrea Robbi (Sils) link: SILS MUSEUM - Cultural Foundation Andrea Robbi, Museo Ciäesa Granda (Stampa).

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As early as 1863 a measuring station was put into operation and the systematic measurement of meteorological parameters was started. This makes the Sils series of measurements one of the longest in the entire Alpine region and is of great value for observing climate development. The stations were located at different places in the village. Currently, the Sils measuring station is located near the Champsegl schoolhouse.

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• Accessible to the public and free of charge
• Zu Fuss und Bike erreichbar

He lived in a modest room in the Durisch family's house during his stays. In the Engadine, with its dry, sunny climate, the weather-minded thinker found conditions from which he hoped to alleviate his violent migraine-like headache. A strict daily schedule not only regulated working hours and meal times, but also provided "5 - 7 hours of exercise every day", which he obtained by taking long walks in the area - the best opportunity to literally "philosophize" "fare. Even the first stay resulted in a key thought that gave his future work a new direction: the "thought of eternal return", the basic concept of Nietzsche's "So spoke Zarathustra".

The exhibition includes a rich collection of photos and documents, manuscripts and letters from the Sils period, the original death mask, various busts (Max Kruse, Willy de Boe), music, a complete collection of the works that Nietzsche himself published during his lifetime, including rare dedication copies. In addition, there is a documentation on the counterfeits for which Nietzsche's sister is responsible and on Nietzsche's time as a professor in Basel (Basler Stube with original furniture and documents from the time of Basel 1869-79).

Special exhibition

the Upper Engadine is one of those special landscapes that have long fascinated and inspired writers, musicians and visual artists. Gerhard Richter first came to Sils Maria for a winter holiday in 1989. The wide high valley enclosed by mountain massifs with its lakes and incomparable light made a deep impression on him, and from then on he returned there again and again for summer and winter stays.

Now, for the first time, an exhibition is devoted exclusively to Gerhard Richter's encounter with the Upper Engadine and his fascination with this landscape. Curated by Dr. Dieter Schwarz, the show will be on view from 9 December 2023 to 13 April 2024 at the Nietzsche Haus (Sils Maria), the Segantini Museum and the Galerie Hauser & Wirth (St. Moritz).

On display will be paintings based on Upper Engadine motifs, overpainted photographs, drawings and some of the eleven steel spheres in which two central themes in Richter's oeuvre take on concrete form - reflection and nature.

Mrs. Mirella Carbone (Foundation Board) and Mrs. Susanne Summermatter are responsible for the Richter exhibition in the Nietzsche House.

More information at sils.ch/events

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Opening hours

closed: from 14. April 2024 to 14. June 2024

open: from 15. June 2024 to 20. October 2024
Monday closed
Tuesday - Sunday 3.00pm - 6.00pm

The Andrea Robbi Foundation, which runs the museum, also has the task of preserving the artistic heritage of the significant Sils painter Andrea Robbi and making it accessible to the public.

Special exhibition: The picturesque mountain

The landscapes of the Engadin and Bergell have long held a great attraction for painters. Their works are an expression of their attachment to the mountain world, their enthusiasm for shining peaks and reflecting lakes, and their painterly adventures. A feast of color that opens up surprising insights into the different perspectives of artists rooted here and those who have moved to the area on the alpine landscape.

Guided tours:
Every Tuesday from 15.06. - 22.10.2023 from 5.00pm - 6.00pm

Opening hours:
Off-season: closed
Admission: Adults CHF 10.00, youngsters CHF 6.00, children free

More Information to the guided tours: www.sils.ch/events
More information to the museum: www.silsmuseum.ch

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Opening hours

closed: from 08. April 2024 to 15. June 2024