Cultural offers - Schaffhausen has a lot to offer
Schaffhausen offers a wide range of cultural and social activities for the whole family. You can choose from sports, music, exhibitions, art galleries, museums, theaters, parties, training opportunities etc. There's always something going on.
Put together your favorite program and start an exciting discovery tour in the small paradise Schaffhausen.
Places of interest
Museum zu Allerheiligen
Museum zu Allerheiligen
Klosterstrasse
8200 Schaffhausen
Tel. +41 (0)52 633 07 77
Fax +41 (0)52 633 07 88
www.allerheiligen.ch
In the museum rooms — with an important cultural collection — you can learn a lot of interesting facts about all areas of the local history and will be able to visit the exciting art exhibitions.
Opening hours
Museum zu Allerheiligen
Tue-Sun 11am – 5pm
Mo closed
Museum Stemmler
Museum Stemmler
Sporrengasse 7
8200 Schaffhausen
+41 52 625 88 46
museum.stemmler@stsh.ch
The natural history cabinet in the former residence of nature and animal conservationist Carl Stemmler at Sporrengasse 7 in Schaffhausen is a museum within a museum. It combines a wealth of zoological exhibits and is thus a fascinating panopticon of the animal world.
Opening Hours
Sunday 11 am–5 pm
Open on Easter Sunday and Monday as well as Whitsun day and Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed on all other public holidays
IWC Schaffhausen Museum
IWC Schaffhausen Museum
Baumgartenstrasse 15
CH-8201 Schaffhausen
Switzerland
https://www.iwc.com/en/company/museum.html
The greatest icons from Schaffhausen, masterpieces of engineering and curiosities that have been lost in time: At the IWC Museum you can experience the fascinating history of the largest watch manufacturer in German-speaking Switzerland, up close and in a multimedia format. An engaging audio guide, integrated into the free IWC app, provides surprising background information on many of the more than 230 items.
OPENING HOURS
Tuesday to Friday: 9 am — 5:30 pm
Saturday: 9 am — 3:30 pm
Museum Night Schaffhausen Hegau
The next Museum Night will take place on Saturday, 20 September 2025. Interested parties can register throughout the year. Previous participants will be contacted around mid-March.
Admission to the Museum Night Hegau-Schaffhausen is free.
To get to the individual art venues, bus and train connections are recommended.
Museum Lindwurm
Museum Lindwurm
Unterstadt 18
CH – 8260 Stein am Rhein
Tel: + 41 (0)52 741 25 12
https://www.museum-lindwurm.ch/en/
Experience the world in the 19th century!
Visitors are transported back in time to the year 1850 over an area of 1500 m2: How did people live without heating, electricity or running water? How did people cultivate the fields or harvest the crops without tractors?
Opening times
March to October
Tuesday to Sunday 10 am — 5 pm
Planetarium / Observatory
Schaffhausen Observatory
Weiherweg
8200 Schaffhausen
reservation@sternwarte-schaffhausen.ch
Our planetarium has room for 25 seats under a six-metre dome. This makes it the fourth-largest planetarium in Switzerland - or, to put it more modestly, the second-smallest. With its 360° panoramic view, the planetarium gives you the feeling of sitting in the open air. It provides a clear view of the stars, even in bad weather, and invites you to take virtual journeys through the universe.
In the planetarium we show both finished film products from scientific Organizations such as National Geographic or the ESA as well as shows that we produce ourselves and present live.
St. George’s Abbey Museum
St. George's Abbey Museum
Fischmarkt 3
8260 Stein am Rhein
Phone +41 52 741 21 42
The former monastery of Sankt Georgen is now a museum. Sankt Georgen was once inhabited by monks of the Benedictine order. Many parts of this old monastery have been preserved unchanged. Today, the monastery is one of the most interesting buildings in the Lake Constance region and is protected by the Swiss Confederation. On your tour you can visit the former living quarters of the monks and the abbot. The beautiful garden is also worth seeing.
Open from 1 April to 2 November 2025, Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Medieval Gem - Stein am Rhein
Tourismus Stein am Rhein
Oberstadt 3
CH-8260 Stein am Rhein
schaffhauserland.ch/en/regions/stein-am-rhein.html
Stein am Rhein is full of interesting stories.
The town of Stein am Rhein lies at the point where Lake Constance becomes the River Rhine again. It is famous for its well-preserved Old Town centre, with painted facades and half-timbered houses, for which it received the very first Wakker Prize in 1972. Visitors will find that the culinary delights on offer here are as colourful as the magnificent facades.
Doll Museum, Buchberg
Dorfstrasse 22
CH-8454 Buchberg
https://puppen-museum.ch/index.html
Visit to the doll museum
Experience the unique charm of the doll museum and let yourself be transported back to the world of childhood days gone by. You can admire antique and new dolls, teddy bears, toys, soft toys and much more.
Opening hours:
- Wednesday: 14:00 - 17:00
- First Sunday of the month: 13:00 - 16:00
- Outside opening hours by appointment.
- 5.00 CHF per person / free for children