Ticket "Experience the Salt" at Saline Schweizerhalle
Highlights
- Join a guided tour to explore the Schweizerhalle saltworks
- Discover how salt brine forms from hidden deposits and is refined into fine table salt
- Explore experimental stations where salt appears, disappears, and reappears
Description
You're joining a guided tour through the Saline Schweizerhalle. "Experience the Salt" walks you through each station step by step, showing how brine is extracted from deep rock layers.
Interactive experiments featuring the Big Bang, melting ice cubes, and disappearing salt make the scientific processes easy to understand. You'll get a look inside evaporation kettles, see a salt landscape, and learn background information about production.
Themed Stations
- Origin – a journey to the beginnings of the Earth
- Extraction – from rock salt to brine
- Production – how salt and water separate
- Refinement – turning brine into fine table salt
- Everyday life – where you encounter salt daily
- Future – the role salt plays in supply and sustainability
Inclusions
Ticket Tour "Experience the Salt"
Meeting point
Besuchszentrum Salina Helvetica - Salzladen Schweizerhalle, Rheinstrasse 51d 4133 Pratteln
Rheinstrasse 51d, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland
Important information
- Recommended minimum age: 6 years
- For safety reasons, visitors must be able to move without aids such as wheelchairs, walking sticks, or strollers
- Dress code: closed shoes, comfortable clothing
Provider
Operated by
Schweizer Salinen AG (Salina Helvetica)
Verified provider
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It was a very personal experience, we were involved and all four of us were thrilled. Many thanks.
Katharina
10 Jul 2026
We really enjoyed the tour. It was entertaining and very interesting. Many thanks for the very kind support.
Claudia
24 May 2026