Publications & Media

Here you will find news from the Customs Museum and reports from the media.

Swiss Customs Museum books in various languages. — © FOCBS

Publications

Book: The Swiss Customs Museum (2007, in German, French and Italian)

• Museum Brochure: «A visit to the border»

  PDF3.16 MB15 December 2021

• Archive

  Exhibition “A border between poverty and persecution”

  • Forum Z.: Zollmuseum: Zwei neue Sonderausstellungen zum Saisonstart (16.06.2021, in German)

  • Schweizer Bauer «Die ramina» musste überquert werden (in German)

    PDF469.99 kB9 August 2023

  Special exhibition “Beguiling Appearance – Murky Shadows?”

  • Media release “Final run of counterfeiters and brand pirates' appearance at the Swiss Customs Museum in Cantine di Gandria in Lugano” (5 April 2019)
  • Press release: Extended until October 2019: “Beguiling Appearance – Murky Shadows?” A special exhibition at the Swiss Customs Museum (18 May 2018)
  • Media release: The Special Exhibition “Beguiling Appearance – Murky Shadows?” Visitors to the Swiss Customs Museum immerse themselves in the World of Counterfeiters
  • Medienmitteilung: Saisoneröffnung des Schweizer Zollmuseums (06. April 2017, in German)

  Special exhibition “Flucht - Schutz - Humanität”

  • Medienmitteilung: Sonderausstellung Flucht - Schutz - Humanität (in German)

    PDF279.82 kB19 April 2013

  • Flyer: Flucht - Schutz - Humanität (2013-2014, in German)

    PDF4.90 MB15 December 2021

  Media

  • RSI: Cane Peo (10.11.2020, in Italian)
  • RTS: Histoires de frontières (8 août 2020, in French)
  • Blog Swiss National Museum: Das Tessiner Grotto (2020, in tedesco)
  • RSI, Piatti Chiari: “Il tarocco va di moda” (30 November 2018, in Italian)
  • Blog Swiss National Museum: The Smuggler Invasion (6 April 2018)
  • Blog Swiss National Museum: Smuggling between Switzerland and Italy (5 April 2018)
  • RTS: Swiss Customs Museum (15 August 2016, in French)
  • Ticino Online: “High-Ranking Visitor at the Swiss Customs Museum” (25 May 2016, in Italian)