GLAM/Newsletter/January 2026/Contents/Switzerland report
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Museum in Chiasso, Alpine Museum, Women Monuments
Museum in Chiasso
Starting the year with the New Years brunch and the editathon in Chiasso celebrating Wikipedia's birthday has been great. Twentyfive years is a quarter of the century. The museum in Chiasso welcomed the group of Wikimedians and explained the history of the collections. The museum is part of the Centro culturale Chiasso using an architectual logo that represents the geographical shape of the involved institutions. The project page reflects all the different activities of the day as well as the results developed. The tour and the different cultural spaces as cinema, gallery, bookshop, collections, exhibition have been interesting and full of cultural history.
Alpine Museum
The museum opens specially for Wikimedians to provide a Community space in the center of Bern. There were around 12 Wikimedians writing on alpine topics. New Articles were developed Dania Allenbach and Alpine Museum as well as wiki data entries and a list on cultural heritage in Bern. The museum opens specially for Wikimedians as on Mondays they are closed. It is a fruitful cooperation as the museum is located in the center and part of museum district in Bern. Finally the community space takes shape. The group is quite open and a registration is not necessary. Further informations can be found on the project page.
Women Monuments
The book publication on women monuments in Switzerland has been released on January 17th in Zürich. At the hackerspace Bitwäscherei there was the installation with art objects on the topic of women monuments by Ursina Gabriela Roesch, Rani Le Prince, Laura Kärki and Sandra Becker. As women monuments are underrepresented it has been difficult to find them. The artist Frauke Beeck had been asking people about them. She went from village to village on her discovery tour. The context of the discovered monuments can be found on the project page on Meta.
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