Henry Dunant Museum

The Henry Dunant Museum is the only museum in the world that circles the life and work of the visionary initiator of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions.

Henry Dunant (1828-1910) spent the last 18 years of his life in Heiden. The Appenzell village with its classicist architecture was an internationally renowned health resort at the time. Here, at 800 m. above sea level, with a view of Lake Constance and across borders, he wrote his memoirs and further developed his ideas for a more peaceful world and an International Court of Justice. In Heiden, in 1901, the news reached him that he was the first to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The museum dedicated to him is housed in the former district hospital where Dunant lived as a reclusive pensioner until his death on October 30, 1910.