The Sils Museum, formerly the Andrea Robbi Museum, was established in Sils Maria in 1994 with the aim of making the valuable work of the local painter and draughtsman Andrea Robbi known to a wider public.
In 2018, the Andrea Robbi Foundation decided to expand the purpose of the foundation and the thematic spectrum of the museum exhibitions. Andrea Robbi's works now increasingly serve as a starting point to tell and show selected aspects of the cultural history of Sils and the Upper Engadine. The historical perspective is always supplemented by aspects of the present.
bin hase am frisch verschneiten hang
Literature as Experience
sun leivra davant
costas naiv frais-cha
am hare
on the freshly snow-covered slope
(Quote from Flurina Badel)
We are interested in the ambivalence of light and shadow in contemporary Engadin literature. Its roots lie in an evolved relationship to the alpine landscape, to the seasons of the Engadin and its culture, far removed from the tourist gaze.
