Ratisches Museum

The Ratisches Museum is a museum in Chur. It is placed in the old town and is also known as Bundner Historisches Museum. The Ratische Museum reveals 100,000 well-knownshows on all epochs of Grisons cultural records and is owned with the aid of the canton of Grisons. The baroque patrician residence housing the museum was built in 1675 via Paul von Buol-Strassberg. The imperial baron belonged in the Free State of the Three Leagues to the ruling magnificence. The founding of the museum turned into in the past due 19th century in connection with the increasing exodus of treasured cultural assets.

The attorney, historian and politician Peter Conradin von Planta based a basis in prefer of a "museum of technological know-how and artwork in Grisons". Founding member became also Andreas Rudolf von Planta. On June 8, 1872, the museum become opened at the ground floor of the Buolschen residence. Initially, it covered a library, a herbal history and an antiquity series. The Antikensammlung is presently discontinued. They and all other museum objects that are not applicable to the exhibition are stored inside the Cultural Property Protection Room in Haldenstein.