Winkelriedhaus, Stans

The Winkelriedhaus is one of three houses of the Nidwalden Museum in Stans.

Along with the town hall and the Höfli, the Winkelriedhaus is one of the most important secular buildings in the canton of Nidwalden. It was first mentioned in documents in the 13th century in the yearbook of the Engelberg monastery. In the late Middle Ages it belonged to the Winkelried family. The Landammann knight Melchior Lussi acquired the building in 1560 and developed it into a manorial residence over a period of 40 years. The house remained in the possession of the Lussi family for over 200 years. In 1766 it was taken over by the Landammann Jost Remigi Traxler and finally in 1815 it passed to the Kayser family. The Kayser family donated the house to the canton in 1974.

From 1983 to 1991 the house was restored and since then houses a permanent exhibition and offers rooms for special exhibitions and a garden for events and rentals.

The permanent exhibition Reverberation and Weather in the Winkelriedhaus shows selected works from the collection of the Nidwalden Museum. This is intended to highlight the complex possibilities of art, the historical significance and the collection's focal points. The cantonal collection of the Nidwalden Museum comprises around 16,000 object entries in the digital archive. These material objects document the cultural and artistic history of the canton.