The museum is situated on the height of the big alpine pass on 2,100 m above sea level. With the aid of very modern media, the national Saint Gotthard museum shows you the people's long, exhausting struggle to constantly mend and extend the so important trade and traffic route.
In the national Saint Gotthard museum the positive and negative aspects of the route are being showed in a very lively way. The brutal fights which took place here, the self-sacrificing helpfulness of the dwellers of the hospice, the life of the postmen, the courage of the travellers in winter, the organisation of the transportation, the time of the stage coaches, the tunnelling for road and railway line, but also the attraction of the new ideas and arts - the visitor can witness and comprehend all this in an enthralling way.