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Look at the Rhine! - Aspects of life on the Upper Rhine

Exhibitions
R(h)ein geschaut! Facetten des Lebens am Hochrhein
The exhibition tells stories from Rheinfelden, a town on Switzerland's longest river, the Rhine. It is about fishing, work and food, fashion in the spa town, the fashion label 'Rhein Design', urban development on a major traffic artery, life by the river (as a national border), the hydroelectric power station which was already producing sustainable energy more than 100 years ago and which today supplies the trinational region with electricity.
The Rhine marks the lives of local residents, it threatens them with its floods but provides them with valuable leisure space.
Rheinfelden: a city - modern, picturesque, culturally attractive and endearing...

Museum details

Adresse
Haus zur Sonne
Marktgasse 12
4310
Rheinfelden (CH)
+41 61 835 57 80
Opening hours

47.555433, 7.79351

Rationierungskarten für Seife, Schuhe und Lebensmittel aus dem 2. Weltkrieg     FM G.088
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Wartime on the Rhine - Lecture by Jürg Stüssi-Lauterburg

The lecturer will provide insight into Swiss history from 1912 onwards from the perspective of threats, defenses and hopes for peace at the end of the Cold War in 1991, looking at Nazi and fascist ...

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Ankunft der Braupfannen für die Brauerei Feldschlösschen im Rheinfelder Rheinhafen, 20.11.1959 Filmstill aus "Schwertransport der Braupfannen vom 20.11.1959" (Archiv Brauerei Feldschlösschen)
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Film ab! - Fricktal industrial stories in sound and vision

Experience cinematic trouvailles on Fricktal industrial stories from the 20th and 21st centuries every hour. Start at 14:00, 15:00, 16:00 and 17:00

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Sonnen-Strom
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Electricity off - Fricktal electricity history

After the electricity pioneers installed us Rhine hydroelectric power plants, the Fricktal always had clean renewable electricity! But there were other projects...listen how the electricity story went ...

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Kolorierte Xylographie mit Ansicht der Stadt Rheinfelden von Karl Jauslin (1842-1904), entstanden 1893 FM A.941
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Exhibition talk

Who still regularly sails on the Rhine and invites you to do so soon? How did they catch the salm in Rheinfelden in the past? What stories and memories of the Rhine might you tell us? Find out more ...

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die kleine Pauline öffnet den Vorhang und lädt Erwachsene und Kinder in Begleitung ein Geschichten aus ihrem Leben zu hören und damit einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Museums und auf das Haus zur Sonne und seine Bewohner zu werfen.
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With Pauline through the museum

Enter the 19th century and meet the little girl called Pauline. She is the granddaughter of Franz Josef Dietschy, founder of the Salmen brewery. Still a little girl she lives with her parents ...

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die Ausstellung zum Mittelalter auf der Ringmauer in Rheinfelden
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about the fear of losing the stars. The city of Rheinfelden in the 15th century

Visit the special exhibition in the ring wall barn. Follow the Rheinfelders who stood on the ringwalls day and night looking out for the enemy. In the 15th century, the citizens of Rheinfelden feared ...

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