Swiss Woodcarving Museum | Switzerland Tourism

If you have the chance to travel to Europe, visiting museums is a pretty traditional thing to do. This summer, I had the chance to travel to Switzerland — and to visit a couple musejm museums with close ties to woodworking.

On display this carfing was an exhibit showcasing the work swiss wood carving museum members of the Swiss and local woodcarving associations, which merged last year.

Most of the pieces were made in the last two or three years. Although Flavius himself is trained not in woodcarving but in cabinetmaking, and his own work focuses more on the music box side of things, he is familiar with the carving processes. Now we do it with laser cutting. The carving business involves preparing a model, preparing wood, carving, and shaping, often using plasticine for the models, Flavius said.

Large sculptural carvings are premilled on a CNC router. CNC machines, however, swiss wood carving museum not efficient enough to complete carvihg carvings. Much of the business today involves carving models that people use to pitch swiss wood carving museum ideas, or items that will be filmed for digital media. That is not to say that history is forgotten at caeving museum. Among its objects on display is a cabinet that likely dates to carvnig 19th century Paris exhibition.

It was created by a woodcarver who was living in Brienz and teaching at the local woodcarving school at the time. Also found in the museum is a music box that used to provide entertainment for those waiting at a railway station near the turn of the twentieth century.

Today, visitors to the museum — with advance notice, of at least five days, in groups of 10 or more — can actively participate in the Brienz region tradition of woodcarving.

The museum offers the chance to carve a traditional Swiss wooden cow. Cow coloring sheets are provided for children. The group I was touring with, consisting of media representatives from Germany, China, Swiss wood carving museum, Ukraine, Indonesia and the Czech Republic, did participate in the cow carving.

The other museum on our tour, the Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum, highlights actual architectural examples of historic dwellings from all regions of Switzerland. The wooden houses showcase various styles of Swiss architecture, as well as wooden furniture and artifacts. The Ballenberg also offers demonstrations and classes on historic handicrafts.

Our tour guide knew of a German couple who had been restoring their house via the knowledge learned from Swiss wood carving museum classes. And someday, I will have swiss wood carving museum make it back there to get to the parts of the museum with the cheese and chocolate making demonstrations. The media trip was sponsored by Swiss Tourism, to highlight their new Swiss Travel Pass, which works for trains, buses and boats and is available through RailEurope.

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