Upper Engadine Cultural Archives

The goal of the Archives is to collect and conduct research on the cultural heritage of the Upper Engadine and the surrounding regions. The organization makes its materials accessible to the public and addresses the arts, architecture, language, music, nature study, development of hotels, tourism, traffic and sport in the Engadine. Since it was established in 1988, 3,000 letters of the families Puonz, Curtin, Fonio from Sils – confectioners and ale brewers in Berlin, 420 Engadine photographs by Elizabeth Main (Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed), the inheritance of the architect Max Alioth of St. Moritz, drawings and sketches of the ornamental painter Kaspar Donatsch of Celerina, as well as the inheritance of Elvezia Michel, the artist from Borgonovo, Bregaglia. Many volunteers support the archives. In 2024, the archive moved from Samedan to its new location in the Chesa Planta in Zuoz. == Gallery ==

Examples from the picture collection: File:Elizabeth Main Skating on the lake of Sils.png|Skating on the lake of Sils. Photographed by Elizabeth Main File:Musikgruppe Fränzli bei Sils.jpg|The musicians Fränzli near Sils, ca. 1900 File:Kulm Wiese St Moritz um 1900 foto von Camill Hoffmann.jpg|Kulm-Wiese St. Moritz, ca. 1900 File:Wanderzoo mit Kamel inmitten von St. Moritz.jpg|Camel in the middle of St. Moritz, ca. 1890 File:St Moritz vom See.jpg|The lake of St. Moritz, ca. 1890 File:B Dorf Samedan Chesa Planta .jpg|Samedan ca. 1930, with the Chesa Planta == Bibliography ==