The museum is dedicated to Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875). It highlights Dufour's achievements as a scientist, engineer, cartographer, military leader and politician. The famous Dufour map is on display. It is regarded as the first precise, reliable map of Switzerland and shows Switzerland at a scale of 1:100,000 with astonishing graphic accuracy. Other rarities can also be discovered, including military maps of Switzerland from the National Socialist era and the Cold War, as well as detailed Russian maps of Swiss cities and terrain. Other items of interest include surveying instruments and calculating devices, theodolites, planimeters, crypto machines and encryption devices.


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