Art galleries in Zermatt

Zermatt, Valais has 11 art galleries on the map. That's 11 galleries mapped around Zermatt. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Zermatt (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Imago and Galerie Maste 4, plus Galerie la Craquelure. If a gallery's missing from Zermatt's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Zermatt gallery lineup

11 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Zermatt

2 of the 11 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

3 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.

3 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.

The Zermatt gallery walk

Making a day of it in Zermatt? Work this order: Imago, Galerie Maste 4, Galerie la Craquelure, Galerie du Raccard, Vita contadina d’antan e Pontey il paese nel presepe, Maxxx Project Space on 12 Av. Max Huber, Zone 30 Art Public on 6 Rue Centrale, and Les Belles Intentions on 10 Route de Sion. That's the gallery walk in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 3 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Zermatt

How the regulars do Zermatt's galleries:

• The bookshop corner is curated at Imago. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• First Fridays and art walks at Galerie Maste 4. Many towns run a monthly evening when galleries open late together. The easiest way to see everything at once.
• Buy the catalogue. Exhibition catalogues are the affordable art book. They sell out after the show closes.
• Ask about private views. Mailing lists get you invited to previews — quieter, with the artists around and first pick of the work.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Zermatt — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Zermatt can take a while to appear. The 11 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 11 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.