nationalparkszentrum zernez

Must be a highly controversial piece of architecture being what appears to be a granite cube. Not what you'd call vernacular.Inside the three introductory film screens slow you down and get you into the mood for what follows. Superb photography.You visit the centre through audio devices switched to your own language and press the numbers corresponding to the exhibit which interests you. The experience is principally aimed at children, so get used to talking rocks and guessing games (I was hopeless). If you are not put off by the youth angle and you are really interested in nature, then the information is fascinating.

So many wonderful walks and if you're lucky you get to see a marmot, a chamois or just listening to the twitter of birds.

We liked that there was an audio guide in English. The exhibits represented what you would find within the park….flora, fauna, the different types of rock that make up the mountains and the seasonal changes…all were well done and easy to understand.

great staff and lots of good tips. Lots of material and the visit of the museum is very well recommended.

I have done several hikes. The national park is beautifull as the nature is only touched by....nature. So pure nature with not a lot of involvement of people (besides maintaining paths, etc..). The centre is great and the people are competent. The only thing is that with some improvement on the website the planning of the hikes can be improved. All in all very good.

The center has 3 functions:- It serves as the tourist information for Zernez and surroundings, and for the Swiss national park. As that, it's very good, the staff is very friendly and competent, and seem to speek every possible language (and understand bad german without immediately switching to English)- It's got an excellent shop for hiking maps and books about the swiss national park and Swiss and alpine nature, also souvenirs ( T-shirts, caps etc)- And finally, there is the National park excibition. The national park exhibition is like any national park exhibition, with information about geology, fauna and flora of this part of the alps and the national park in particular. Also a little about the history of the national park. As such, it is a very good, interactive exhibition, interesting both for children and grownups. I spent about 2,5 hours, (it was raining and I had the time), and I came away having learnt a lot of interesting things. That said, there is a lot that is similar to what you learn from any national park information center, anywhere. Thus if you are interested in nature and has spent a lot of time in the alps and learn about the nature, then you might find that you might not learn much new. There is a fee, of 7 CHF, that was worth every Rappen, in my opinion.

We enjoyed the National Park, and found the hikes rewarding; the park reminded us of the US West or the Canadian rockies. However, we felt it went a bit too far to retain it's natural approach. A few more benches would have been welcome, and adding a few mountain restaurants would not have diminished the beauty of the place. We did, however, enjoy the restaurant in the center of the park.

An innovative visitor center with a lot of helpful information about the park, with audioguides in English. My only complaints were that A) you had to pay quite a bit to enter (compared to U.S. national parks where visitor centers are free - but then again Swiss NP has no entrance fee, so I guess it evens out!) and B) that to use a credit card you'd have to pay quite a bit more.

I really didn’t get a chance to tour the museum, but rather ask about how to get to various trails in Swiss National Park. The museum serves an information hub for the town, in which we found the workers there to be quite friendly and very helpful. They gave us several maps and showed us where to get off, and what times the buses would be at each stop. They also have this really cool interactive mountain sculpture in which you can select which trail you want to go on, giving you a highlighted section of what the trail looks like! I would definitely check here before venturing off hiking into Swiss National Park.

it is a modern building who tells the story of the national park. It was very interesting. If you have time you should go and visit it

The National Park Visitors' Centre is simply fantastic - the exterior doesn't look so flash (concrete blocks) but what they've done inside is just awesome.Ground floor is a shop, with a few general features to look at and the info/cashier desk to learn about what you can do in the park, and book tours or even hire GPS guides - which include a few fun "info stops" for kids, along the marked kids' walk in the park. The staff are well-trained and informative, in a range of languages (I personally used German and English, but also heard French & Italian being used by some other visitors).The other floors of the building have a series of displays set up, with audio guides you can hire for the many exhibits and features through the displays - specific info for each feature gained by typing in the code number on that feature's label. Again, not sure how many languages are done, but the English guide was great (nice British accents from the 'actors', as many of the info pieces were done as question/answer conversations). You could move at your own pace, and repeat things you missed or wanted to hear again, and there were interactive displays as well - with instructions on the audio guide.A terrific experience overall, and you could get a lot out of a second (or third!) visit as well - there's so much there, surely too much for anyone to take in with a single visit.

Very modern building, might not be of everybody's likes, but people are helpful and the museum is worth visiting.

The Swiss National Park does not have camping or facilities. It is in a remote and beautiful location in Southeastern Switzerland. Therevis so much beauty in Switzerland the whole country is like a National Park.

Excellent selection of walks, some easy, some challenging.

In una giornata di forte nevicata ho consigliato a degli amici la visita al centro. Personale cortese e disponibile che ti invoglia di ritornare