Protected by the ancestral walls of a fortified castle built in 1286 by Louis de Savoie in the "Savoyard square" style - and which served as a residence for Bernese bailiffs from 1536 to 1798 - the Château de Morges & its museums boasts four exhibitions

Protected by the ancestral walls of a castle built in 1286 by Louis of Savoy according to the "Savoyard square" type - and which served as a residence for the Bernese bailiffs from 1536 to 1798 -, the Castle of Morges & its museums has four permanent exhibitions. The Vaud Military Museum presents a collection of bladed weapons, firearms and armor. The weapons room covers 350 years of Vaud military history and its illustrious representatives, from Major Davel to General Guisan. The public has the opportunity to discover the uniforms of the Waldensian militia, numerous objects and uniforms relating to the Swiss regiments of the various foreign services. The castle also houses the collections of the Artillery Museum - forty firearms and scale models of the Swiss artillery -, the Swiss Museum of Historical Figurines - 10,000 figurines from the Raoul Gérard collection in nearly 50 dioramas -, as well as the Museum of the Vaud Gendarmerie from its creation to the present day.


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