Museum Engiadinais, St. Moritz

The Engiadinaise Museum features a collection of historic grand rooms and parlors, and displays objects and building elements from the Engadin. It was built in 1906 by the architect Nicolaus Hartmann jun. on behalf of the collector and brewer Riet Campell from Susch. Throughout his life, Riet Campell collected culturally and historically valuable interiors from five centuries in order to save them from being sold off and make them accessible to the public. Nicolaus Hartmann jun. created a tailor-made building for these rooms. The objects and building elements that illustrate life in the parlours at the time also come from Campell's collection.

Then and now, the building reflects the idea of a typical Engadine house. As one of the oldest museums in Graubünden, it is not an authentic, historic building into which a collection has been integrated. Rather, the collection, together with the specially created building, forms a unique ensemble whose significance exceeds the sum of its individual pieces.