A quiet island within the busy and often stressful (seminary) everyday life offers you a intensive flash visit in the art museum or the Ittingen Museum. The ambition of our visit is to immerse for awhile in a theme, a drawing or a story amid the baroque richeness of pictures of the monastery church, in front of a selected work in the art museum or a object of the monastery history. It can well be that the seminary content leads to the choice of the topic. We like to help you to experience a moment of pause and focussed being.

Costs: CHF 120.-
For groups of a maximum of 25 persons. Duration: 20 to 30 minutes.

We meet the holy Laurentius not only in the monastery church or in the Ittingen Museum. Already when we enter the charterhouse through the southern portal Laurentius, the man with the grill, decorates the portal. Already the Augustinian monks sanctified their church to him. We count far above 50 carved, forged, painted or shaped depictions of Laurentius. Who was this man? What’s the legend behind the keeper of the teasury chamber of pope Valerian, who died as a martyr in Rome 300 years anno domini? Walter Büchi, head of tecum, occupied himself closely with the legend and interpretation and offers a fascinating lecture.

Costs: CHF 120.- for the lecture
For groups of a maximum of 25 persons. Duration: 30 to 45 minutes.

The tours are devoted to different topics. The spectrum ranges from tours through the rooms of the former monastery with the baroque church to contemporary art and culture. Content and topic of the tours are announced at www.kunstmuseum.ch.

Costs: Admission CHF 10.00 per person.

On the tour through the inner monastery area, you will encounter the important places with their functions at the time in the life of the monks. The tour provides information on the lifestyle of the Carthusians within the monastery walls and also about the commercial aspects of the entire monastery grounds. Thoughts about tranquillity and loneliness, about silence and prayer are taken up which, in the form in which they were consistently lived at the time, are difficult to understand today.

Costs: SFr. 120.- per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission (CHF 7.00 from 10 persons).
For groups of a maximum of 25 persons.
Duration: 90 minutes.

An important requirement for the monastic contemplative life of monks in conclave was the flourishing and healthy economic basis of the monastery. The monastery’s own agriculture with land, woods, vines and crafts and trades ensured independence. The well-being of the monastery grounds had a direct impact on the spiritual concentration of the Carthusians. This tour generates exciting links and comparisons between the habits of the Carthusians and today's commercial contexts.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons). For groups of a maximum of 25 persons.
Duration: 90 minutes.

The tour shows a broad cross-section through the grounds of Ittingen Charterhouse. Based on the inner conclave with church and monk cells and the presentation of the monastic values such as ‘tranquillity’ and ‘contemplation’, the tour visits today’s facilities at Ittingen Charterhouse. In conversation with people e.g. from agriculture, the residential home and workshop or the gastronomic establishments, you will learn about today's commercial activities of managing the grounds and the former values such as 'mercy' or self-sufficiency.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons). For groups of a maximum of 12 persons. Duration: 90 minutes.
Hinweis: Mit grösseren Gruppen bis max. 25 Personen wird derselbe Inhalt
vermittelt, jedoch ohne Besuch in geschützten Werkstätten der Betriebe.

The function and expression of gardens have regularly changed in the course of the history. Particularly in the Charterhouse, the topic ‘garden’ can be viewed from a diversity of angles. From the medieval gardens of the Carthusian monks, to the Baroque facilities of the 18th century into the 19th century when Ittingen was the seat of the Fehr family. However, gardens not only have a historical importance, they regularly acquire new forms in today's time. The labyrinth thus forms a contemporary type of spirituality. Not forgetting: depictions of gardens in art, such as, for example, the neighbour’s garden of Adolf Dietrich or the installation ‘The Paradise’ by Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick which spans several rooms and plays with ideas of the paradise gardens.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour.
For groups of a maximum of 20 persons.
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes.

With Ittingen Museum and the art museum, two of the most important museums of the canton of Thurgau are domiciled at the same location. A walk through the two museums gives, on the one hand, background information on the history of the Charterhouse Order but also on current exhibitions in the art museum. In addition, there is a diversity of possibilities to generate links between the culture of the past and today, both with contrasts and similarities. The basic offer can be oriented to the desired topical focal points.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons). For groups of a maximum of 25 persons.
Duration: 90 minutes.

This offer gives you an in-depth introduction into the collection of the art museum or into current special exhibitions. You will receive general information on the history of the collection and the development of the art operations, on the exhibition concepts and special information on artists, their way of working, forms of expression, works, stylistic devices and work statements.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons).
For groups of a maximum of 25 persons.
Duration: 60 minutes.

The Art Museum of the canton of Thurgau has made a special name for itself with the works that have been created for Ittingen Charterhouse. Contemporary artists are invited to give their reaction to the Charterhouse in their respective form of expression, based on the location. Janet Cardiff thus invites the people to a walk through the monastery grounds with her audio art and entices personal images from them that alternate between dream and reality: With the ‘Verstummte Bibliothek’ (‘Silent Library), Joseph Kosth recalls the loss of knowledge that accompanied the dissolution of the monastery and the forced departure of the monks. Karolin Bräg did things very differently; she asks the people of the Charterhouse whether they like it here. The artistic concentrate is now available as a book; the notes on it are in a sealed archive box.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons).
For groups of a maximum of 20 persons.
Duration: 90 minutes.

Janet Cardiff has created audio art especially for Ittingen Charterhouse. A voice takes you on a walk through the monastery, talks to you and entices personal images and thoughts from you. Perception in the truest sense, between reality and fiction. In the process, you will find out something about the location and a lot about yourself! A subsequent exchange reveals a diversity of facets and surprises with the different ways of hearing and seeing. A particularly valuable experience as a group.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons).
For groups of a maximum of 12 persons.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes.

(Art of the present) Understanding has to do with perceiving Through unconventional paths of a person’s own perception, this tour attempts to track down art and to understand it better. Experiences via the senses lead to personal insights and new interpretations. Through perception, objects, locations or works gain importance, whether it is in the collection, in special exhibitions, in the Baroque church or in the surrounding area of the Charterhouse.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour.
For groups of a maximum of 20 persons.
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes.

The author Marianne Ulrich helps visitors to special insights, on the one hand, by fetching artistic treasures such as documents, sketches, diaries, etc., which are usually hidden and inaccessible, from the archive and, on the other hand, by stimulating visitors to new insights through thoughts. Insights can be booked on very different artist portraits.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour plus CHF 10.00 admission
(CHF 7.00 from 10 persons).
For groups of a maximum of 20 persons.
Duration: 90 minutes.

In the discussion of the spiritual tradition of monkhood, the tecum has offered contemporary forms of meditation for years. With the room of tranquillity and the labyrinth, the Charterhouse offers not one but two places for self-experience. Why not set a counter point to busy everyday life with sustainable effect? You will be guided in simple forms of meditation.

Costs: CHF 120.00 per tour.
For groups of a maximum of 20 persons.
Duration: 60 to 90 minutes.

Viticulture has a long tradition in Ittingen. For more than 700 years grapes are cultivitated. Learn more about the work of our winemaker, about the experiments and the sucesses. Taste, compare and expertise the broad range of Ittingen wines. Specifically explanations will be given by our winemaker.

Costs: CHF 90.– plus degustated wine
Duration: 60 minutes