Whether a selfie, postcard, stone or magnet – souvenirs preserve memories of our mountain journeys. The new exhibition at the Lost and Found Memories Office puts these mementos and their stories centre stage. This participatory format invites visitors to share their own souvenirs from mountain trips. Whether kitsch or status symbol – we're interested in what you bring back and what your souvenirs remind you of. With this new edition of the Lost and Found Memories Office, the ALPS tourism collection is expanded and various perspectives on current tourism questions are discussed.

The car is as much a part of 20th-century leisure culture as the Tremola is to the Gotthard Pass. Sunday trips to the countryside, picnics at the top of the pass, or a holiday drive down south – the mass production of small cars satisfied a new appetite for mobility and created personal freedom.

'A Great Day Out' uses amateur film footage to recount the unclouded joy of car journeys and mountain pass excursions from the 1920s to the 1980s, when even a traffic jam was still an experience in itself. The film material comes mainly from private collections in the canton of Ticino. The films tell their stories through moving, sometimes jerky images – without words, yet deeply evocative. Sit back in your car seat and immerse yourself in the film collage.

An exhibition in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del San Gottardo.

Traditional music is a reflection of our time: multi-voiced, contradictory, and vibrant. Alpine Sounds explores the fascination it exerts, the associated clichés, and new ways of approaching it. What does traditional music have to do with me? How did traditional music come to symbolize Swiss identity? Which developments have shaped Swiss cultural heritage and experimental fervour? And why is there no such thing as traditional Swiss music?  

This exhibition is an experience for the body, the heart, and the mind. It has been developed in cooperation with approximately 25 traditional musicians who have drawn on their considerable experience to select topics and address relevant questions about traditional music. We will look at its history, Swissness, and popularization, become familiar with a wide range of musicians, brush up on well-known traditional songs, and play music together on the communal instrument in the display areas. The soundspace at the heart of the exhibition draws us in to a sensory world of mountain imagery, the sounds of nature, and instrumental and vocal collages. Anyone who enjoys playing music or just making sounds in general is welcome to take a turn on the stage. One thing is clear: traditional music is something else. And it’s a lot more than we imagined.