Museum Kloster Sankt Georgen

About this place

The former Benedictine abbey of St. Georgen is one of the most important Swiss architectural monuments from the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. It was founded in the 11th century and underwent major structural changes in the 14th to 16th centuries and in the 19th century. The monastery comprises cloister buildings with chapter house, refectories, dormitories, abbot’s rooms and the abbot’s chapel. Of particular importance are the late Gothic cloister and the so-called Festsaal, built in 1516 under the last abbot, David von Winkelsheim. It houses one of the most important cycles of paintings of the early modern period north of the Alps. The monastery was dissolved in 1525 during the Reformation. Since 1926 it has belonged to the Swiss Confederation; today it is a museum of the Federal Office of Culture.

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