Since 2010, the Alp Taspin Mining Museum has documented how up to 70 miners mined non-ferrous metals at over 2200 meters above sea level between the 17th and 19th centuries. Probably the highest museum in Switzerland, it is located in a former pigsty and serves both as an information room and as a starting point for guided tours through the nearby 80-meter-long tunnel. The museum presents the individual steps in mining and the regional history of ore extraction. The mining of non-ferrous metals on the Taspin Alp high above Zillis has been documented since 1605 and lasted until 1892. In the most successful years, the mines in the entire Schamsertal produced up to 1900 tons of raw ore, from which a good 16 tons of lead and 65 kilograms of silver were extracted.


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