INSIDE LIFE. The baroque nuns' cells

Exciting objects and touching stories - thematize the life of the sisters in and with the rooms of the convent.

"Far from home, I celebrated my first Christmas in the quiet little convent. There you can really celebrate Christmas in your heart in the spirit of the church. Christmas mass is at midnight here. Think of the sacrifices the people of the Alps make. Walking for hours to get to church! We city dwellers have no idea. It's already pretty cold here, ..."

In the so-called baroque nuns' cells on the upper floor of the Plantaturm, everything revolves around the inner life of the Sisters of Müstair from June 24. In touching video sequences, the sisters talk about their journey and life in the convent and in seclusion. Objects and stories in the new exhibition focus on themes of intimacy, privacy and processes of safekeeping and closure. These include boxes and chests as personal possessions of the sisters, but also letters, such as the one Gertrude Werner wrote to "her loved ones" in her first year "in the little convent" in 1913.