Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation

The Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation is a history museum in Schwyz. It turned into constructed in 1936 as a countrywide shrine for the Federal Charter of 1291, which turned into believed to be the founding record of the Swiss Confederation. Today, the museum explains the national delusion and the actual history of the Old Swiss Confederacy. It capabilities a collection of authentic files and flags. First thoughts for a national monument date lower back to the 600^th anniversary of the Confederation in 1891.

It become simplest realized inside the Thirties while the Canton of Schwyz planned to move its state archive to a wing of the new constructing. The principal part of the constructing was the exhibition corridor for the Charter of 1291 which might lay on an "Altar of the Fatherland". The archive turned into constructed and opened in 1936. Murals at the facade and at the indoors depict the Rutli Oath and Nicholas of Flue. Four years later, the enormous sculpture "Wehrbereitschaft" become erected inside the park.