«Addio – Willkommen – A revair. Migration stories from the Grandhotel Alpen»

Description

Migration and tourism have been closely intertwined for over 150 years. With the early Alpine tourism, a new economic and living space emerges between Graubünden, Vorarlberg, and southern Tyrol. It is carried by people who leave their homeland for a season or forever to explore new fields of work on construction sites, in hotels, or in self-employed professions.
The exhibition focuses on their life stories. In six dedicated houses, they have their say: a construction worker from the Nonstal who founds a construction company in Vorarlberg; an assistant cook from Siena who works his way up to head chef through twenty hotels across Europe; a waitress from the canton of Zurich who records her experiences in a booklet; a Jewish photographer from Hungary who opens a studio in Meran; a young ski pioneer who leads the first ski course at Arlberg; and a lifeguard couple from Meran whose summer season in Engadin was denied by the First World War. They tell of departure and arrival, hardships and opportunities between St. Moritz, Lech, and Meran. Their life paths show how cross-border mobility shaped the Alpine region, connected it, and led it into modernity.

Highlights

• Biographies of migrants in the Alpine region
• Insight into the history of Alpine tourism
• Focused on personal life stories and mobility

General Information

The special exhibition at the Rätisches Museum in Chur shows the role of migrants in the development of Alpine tourism. Through six biographies, their experiences and contributions over a period of more than 150 years are presented.

Location

Hofstrasse 1, 7000 Chur, Schweiz

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