Zugora

Museum and art

Ziegelei-Museum

Cham · 401 m above sea level

Translation This English text is a draft translation of the German original and has not been reviewed yet.

Brickworks museum
Photo: Schulerst, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Photo · CC BY-SA 3.0

The brickworks museum in Hagendorn is housed in a brick kiln in a forest clearing which, according to Zug Tourismus, is the only one still intact in German-speaking Switzerland. Besides the exhibition on brick making, there is a workshop where children work with clay and a fen looked after by the museum.

Facts

  • Brick-making courses and guided tours
  • Workshop for children
  • Open seasonally from spring to autumn (according to OpenStreetMap)

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More information

Coordinates (LV95): 2,674,790 / 1,227,736

Sources and rights

  • Terrain, relief, municipal boundaries, buildings and hiking trails: © swisstopo
  • Playgrounds and family places: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL); the derived database of places (JSON file to download) is also available under the ODbL.
  • Photos of the places of interest: Wikimedia Commons, author and licence with each photo.
  • Position of the sun after the NOAA formulas; shade values from swissSURFACE3D and swissALTI3D (calculated by the zug-family project).
  • Tips link to Zug Tourismus; only name and location are taken over.