Musée et Chiens du Saint-Bernard, Dog museum in Martigny, Switzerland.
The Musée et Chiens du Saint-Bernard, known as Barryland, occupies a curved concrete-and-wood building in Martigny shaped like a dog's paw print, opened in June 2025 after two years of construction. Its ground floor and outdoor enclosures house the breeding kennels, where sixteen dogs from the neighbouring kennel are brought each day to meet visitors; the upper floors hold the museum rooms.
In 2004 the canons of the Great Saint Bernard Hospice announced they could no longer maintain their Saint Bernard breeding kennel, putting the "vom Grossen Sankt Bernhard" line at risk. The newly created Barry Foundation took over the breeding and the kennel. A second foundation, set up by Bernard and Caroline de Watteville, funded a museum in Martigny's former arsenal, opened in early 2006. The Barry Foundation took the museum over in 2014 and renamed it Barryland the following year.
The dogs are named after Saint Bernard of Menthon, the patron saint of the Alps, reflecting their deep connection to mountain life. Visitors encounter these animals as living reminders of how communities have relied on them for survival in harsh terrain.
The rebuilt Barryland opened in June 2025 after two years of construction, in a curved concrete-and-wood building shaped like a dog's paw print. Sixteen dogs from the neighbouring breeding kennel are brought in each day to be shown to visitors. The ground floor and outdoor enclosures are given over to the dogs; the first floor holds exhibits on the Canterbury–Rome pilgrim route and the pass, the second floor temporary shows.
The museum's first floor traces the Canterbury–Rome pilgrim route through the Aosta Valley, where a pass crossing was needed. From about the 17th century, the canons of the Great St Bernard Hospice kept dogs to find pilgrims lost to avalanches or bad weather; a film shows this work. The second floor holds temporary exhibitions.
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