![Activity programme for tourists: tobogganing in St Moritz, c. 1900.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-wintertourismus-300x225.jpg)
Let’s go to Switzerland!
Edward Whymper aspired to be the first person to reach the summit of the Matterhorn, Thomas Mann wrote world-class literature about Davos, and Mark Twain visited the Rigi and a host of other places. In the 19th century, visitors from abroad came to Switzerland for all kinds of different reasons.
![Edward Whymper, English mountaineer, author and illustrator.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/edward-whymper-210x300.jpg)
![Lord Byron in a painting by Thomas Phillips, 1813.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lord-byron-232x300.jpg)
![Postcard from the sanatorium in Leysin, c. 1900.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/postkarte-leysin-300x153.jpg)
![Mark Twain photographed in 1890.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/mark-twain-234x300.jpg)