Henry Dunant Museum, Heiden

Name: Henry Dunant Museum
Address: Asylstrasse 2, Heiden, 9410, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 71 891 44 04

#1 among attractions in Heiden

Top attraction, Specialty museum, Museum

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The Henry Dunant Museum is a museum in the Swiss town of Heiden, to preserve the memory and legacy of Henry Dunant, the Founder of the Red Cross Movement, who died in Heiden in 1910, after receiving the first-ever Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901. ()

Local name: Henry-Dunant-Museum Heiden Coordinates: 47°26'36"N, 9°31'53"E

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Asylstrasse 2Heiden 9410 Switzerland

Contact

+41 71 891 44 04

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Henry Dunant Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Gäbris, Fort Heldsberg, Arbon Castle, St. Anton Pass.

5.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gäbris
133 min walk • Gäbris is a mountain of the Appenzell Alps, overlooking Gais in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
5.3 miE
Museum
Fort Heldsberg
134 min walk • Fort Heldsberg was built 1938–1940 near St. Margrethen in Switzerland, overlooking the Rhine, which forms the Swiss-Austrian border at that location, just south of Lake Constance.
6.7 miNW
Forts and castles
Arbon Castle, Arbon
170 min walk • Arbon Castle is a former castle and now the Historisches Museum Arbon located in the municipality of Arbon of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
2.3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass
St. Anton Pass
60 min walk • St. Anton Pass is a high mountain pass in the Alps between the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and St. Gallen in Switzerland. It connects Ruppen Pass and Oberegg.
6.4 miNW
Forts and castles
Kleiner Hahnberg Castle
163 min walk • Kleiner Hahnberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Berg of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
6.7 miNW
47°31'2"N • 9°26'16"E
Saurer Museum, Arbon
172 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
1.9 miN
Hotel, Forts and castles
Schloss Wartensee, Rorschacherberg
50 min walk • Wartensee Castle is a historic building complex in Rorschacherberg. It dates back to a residential tower from the 13th century and is now privately owned as Schloss-Hotel Wartensee.
3.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain pass
Ruppen Pass
89 min walk • Ruppen Pass is a high mountain pass between the cantons of St. Gallen and Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. It connects Trogen and Altstätten. The pass road has a maximum grade of 9 percent.
6.6 miSW
Village
Gais
169 min walk • Gais is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. The area of Gais is 21.21 km². In 1977, the village Gais received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
4.5 miS
47°22'41"N • 9°32'28"E
Bibliothek Reburg, Altstätten
116 min walk • Library
3.2 miNE
Locality
Rheineck
81 min walk • Rheineck is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Rheintal in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.