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National Park Centre Zernez

Visitor centerInformation center
Season: All season

Schweizerischer Nationalpark - The National Park Centre in Zernez offers a vast array of interactive, hands-on displays and activities, making it an ideal place for young and
old to visit before or after a walk in the Park.
New permanent exhibition since 2023.

New exhibition «Wilderness in the centre»:
Discover the National Park in an unusual way, with new perspectives from the wildest corners of the park and a fascinating acoustic experience.
Interactive stations provide interesting insights into selected research projects. In a lively production, you will learn exciting facts about key moments in the history of this wilderness area. But what about your own ideas of wilderness? How would wilderness develop if you could determine it? These questions run like a thread through the entire exhibition and finally lead to an unexpected finale. Got curious? Let us surprise you!

5 languages (DE/FR/IT/RM/EN) and age-appropriate mediation:
The new National Park exhibition is an experience for everybody. An audio guide in five languages, adapted to different target or age groups, accompanies you through the exhibition rooms. Children up to the age of 12 follow the absent-minded Ratsch and the clever Furbina on their adventurous journey through the exhibition. The youngest visitors discover the National Park Center at play stations specially signposted for them.

The exhibition was planned and realized by the scenographers of Groenlandbasel in close cooperation with the communication team of the Swiss National Park.

Openinghours

Autumn 2025
27 October to 24 December
Monday until Saturday
from 09.00 am to 12.00 pm and from 2.00 pm until 5.00 pm
Sunday closed
Please note: Once all trails in the National Park are closed, the National Park Centre will also stay closed on Saturdays.
Christmas (25 & 26 December 2025) closed
Winter 2025/26
27 December 2025 to 7 March 2026
Monday to Saturday
9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Sunday closed
New Year (1 January) closed
Spring 2026
9 March to 13 May
Monday until Friday
from 09.00 am to 12.00 pm and from 2.00 pm until 5.00 pm
Saturday and Sunday closed
Special opening for Easter
Good Friday (3 Apr) and Easter Monday (6 Apr)
9.00 am to 5.00 pm
Closed on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday
Summer 2026
14 May to 25 October
Open daily
from 8.30 am to 6.00 pm
1 August: open

Arrival by public transport

Zernez, Center Parc Naziunal Timetable SBB

Infrastructure

  • Seminarroom
  • Toilet

The offer is suitable for

  • Adults
  • Children < 6 years
  • Children from 7-12 years
  • Children >12 years
  • 50+
  • Families
  • Groups

The offer has been particularly developed for

  • First cycle (Kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade)
  • Second cycle (3rd - 6th grade, primary level)
  • Third cycle (1st – 3rd grade, lower secondary)
  • Upper Secondary School Classes
  • Association/Companies

Price information

Adults: CHF 9.-
Children (from 6 to 16): CHF 5.-
Children under 6: free
Family price: CHF 20.-
Groups from 10 people, per person CHF 8.- (please book in advance)
Free with Museumpass (www.museumspass.ch)

Season

All season

Offerer

Schweizerischer Nationalpark – Verwaltung
Schloss Planta Wildenberg
7530 Zernez
Tel. +41818514111

Contact

Business is partner of the park
Schweizerischer Nationalpark – Besucherzentrum
Urtatsch 2
7530 Zernez
Tel. +41 (0) 81 851 41 41

nationalpark.ch/besuchen/nationalparkzentrum/

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