Museum Appenzell

The Museum Appenzell is dedicated to the rural, Catholic cultural history of the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. The focus is on folklore and popular everyday culture. These include the once world-famous Appenzeller hand embroidery as well as farmers' and furniture paintings, the history of tourism or popular piety. Special exhibitions deepen and expand the topics.

The Appenzell Museum is located in the Buherre Hanisefs house and on the upper floors of the town hall on the main street of Appenzell. Both buildings were built immediately after the devastating village fire of 1560.

The Appenzell Historical Association founded the Appenzell Museum in 1879 as an "antiquity collection" in the former armory. After this first museum in Appenzell had to give way to the new Bahnhofstrasse in 1886, the collection came to the local castle. In 1966 the “Heimatmuseum” moved to the town hall, where it was completely renovated in 1991–1995 and expanded with the Buherre Hanisefs house to the Museum Appenzell.