A week end in Schwyz
We’ll present our medieval collection this week-end, Oct. 29 and 30 2011 at the Forum of Swiss History in Schwyz for the inauguration of a new permanent exhibit where some shoes made by us will be part of too. You can find us in medieval costume inside the Museum. I a way it does sound...
Shoemakers on pilgrimage
Our museum is just next to the Way of St.-James leading through Lausanne. Occasionally some pilgrims on their way to Santiago di Compostella in Galicia, Spain also find their way to our museum. Needless to say that shoes where and still are the main mean of locomotion for the pilgrims. Today we had the visit...
Surprise visit
With a museum measuring barely 12 square meters (129 sq.ft) it becomes hard to deal with busloads of visitors. Occasionally it does happen that a travel organizer finds a reference to our museum and intends to send us a busload of people. Usually they check with us first for details to find out that...