Muzeum Susch, Art museum in Susch, Switzerland
Muzeum Susch is an art museum spread across multiple floors within a former monastery and brewery, arranged as a labyrinth of interconnected spaces. The exhibition areas make use of the existing stone walls and rooms of these historic buildings.
The site began as a rural monastery founded in the 1100s, hosting pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela and Rome. It later served as a brewery before becoming an art museum.
The museum's name keeps the Polish spelling "muzeum" with a z, chosen by founder Grażyna Kulczyk. Its Instituto Susch, founded in 2016, runs a research programme led by curator Marika Kuźmicz on women artists from Central and Eastern Europe active in the 1960s to 1980s. Exhibitions have featured Jadwiga Maziarska, Wanda Czełkowska and Gabriele Stötzer.
Entry is through the basement of the Bieraria Veglia, reached via an existing passage into the Bieraria, the main building. The complex lies in the valley at Susch in the Lower Engadin, and the four buildings stand along the same street. Exhibition spaces are on four floors in about twenty rooms, so allow time to move between levels.
During the first construction phase, 9,000 tonnes of amphibolite were blasted from the mountain to create cavernous rooms. Some rooms keep the raw rock exposed, and in one room you can watch spring water emerging from the stone. The blasted rock was ground and reused as a polished floor.
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