PLACES & MAP
Where the discoveries live.
The Atlas follows curiosity across four countries. Switzerland and Liechtenstein form the core of the collection; Austria and Germany appear with selected discoveries that complete the picture of the Alpine industrial and scientific region.
SCHEMATIC MAP — SIMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATIVE, NOT TO SCALE. SELECT A COUNTRY TO FOCUS ITS DISCOVERIES; EACH MARKER LINKS TO A PROFILE.
Switzerland
CORE REGION · 9 discoveriesThe densest concentration of the collection: particle physics on the French border, national research facilities in Aargau, robotics and materials research around Zurich, precision industry in the central cantons, watchmaking in the Jura and the longest railway tunnel on Earth under the Gotthard massif.
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel
Erstfeld–Bodio · Ride or travel it -
NEST, Dübendorf
Dübendorf · Tours by arrangement -
Inside the science of CERN
Meyrin · Open to visitors -
The Paul Scherrer Institute
Villigen · Tours by arrangement -
Technorama, Winterthur
Winterthur · Open to visitors -
maxon, Sachseln
Sachseln · Working facility -
Victorinox, Ibach
Ibach · Tours by arrangement -
Watchmaking towns, La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds · Open to visitors -
ANYbotics, Zurich
Zurich · Working facility
Liechtenstein
CORE REGION · 2 discoveriesA constitutional monarchy of roughly 160 square kilometres between Switzerland and Austria, with fewer than forty thousand inhabitants — and an industrial base that includes a world-leading construction technology group and a lively amateur astronomy scene with its own observatory and planetarium in Schaan.
Austria
SELECTED AREAS · 2 discoveriesSelected discoveries from Austria's Alpine industrial landscape: the world's largest ropeway manufacturer on the shores of Lake Constance and the pioneering mountain railway of the Semmering pass east of Vienna.
Germany
SELECTED AREAS · 2 discoveriesSelected discoveries from southern Germany: the automation and bionics research of Baden-Württemberg and the world's largest museum of science and technology on Munich's Museumsinsel.
