![Curling in the Grisons, about 1940.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/curlinge-titel-300x225.jpg)
From Scottish gentlemen to the «Eisgenossinnen»
How a traditional game from Scotland became a glamour sport in Switzerland, and then went back to being a traditional game ‘of the people’: A brief history of curling in Switzerland
![Pieter Bruegel: People on the ice.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/curling-bruegel-300x189.jpg)
![In Arthur Noel Mobbs’ 1929 guide ‘Curling in Switzerland’, tourists found precise details of all existing curling rinks in Switzerland.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anzeige-228x300.jpg)
![Presentation of the curling personalities in Arthur Noel Mobbs’ ‘Curling in Switzerland’ from 1929: all upper class gentlemen from Great Britain.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zeitung-e1614846163369-204x300.jpg)
Curling match in St Moritz, 1938. YouTube / British Pathé
Slow ‘Swissification’ of the sport
![Curling for everyone, 1965 in Grindelwald.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/grindelwald-e1614848382139-300x210.jpg)
![‘When ladies curl’: Photographic report on female tourists playing curling in Arthur Noel Mobbs’ 1929 volume ‘Curling in Switzerland’.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/frauen-zeitung-217x300.jpg)
Swiss Sports History
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This text was produced in collaboration with Swiss Sports History, the portal for the history of sports in Switzerland. The portal focuses on education in schools and information for the media, researchers and the general public. Find out more at sportshistory.ch