Last Updated on March 28, 2026 by Adrienne
Switzerland and chocolate go hand and hand, and probably the most famous chocolate experience in the county is the Lindt headquarters outside of Zurich, which welcomes visitors to tour their small chocolate museum and sample basically unlimited amounts of their famous chocolate. Our afternoon here was one of the biggest highlights of our stay in Zurich, but you do need to plan well in advance for a visit to Lindt, moreso than with most other tourist attractions in Switzerland. Read on to find out everything you need to know about visiting the Lindt Home of Chocolate.
How to Get Tickets to the Lindt Home of Chocolate
The easiest and cheapest way to visit the Lindt Home of Chocolate is to purchase your tickets directly from Lindt, but this must be done well in advance, even a month or more ahead in peak season. Tickets for the museum (which include tastings) are 17 CHF for adults and 10 CHF for kids ages 8-15, as of 2025. Kids 7 and under are free.
If direct tickets are sold out, you may be able to get tickets through the Swiss national railway, SBB. Their package includes discounted rail tickets to Kilchberg, the suburb of Zurich where Lindt is located, along with tickets to the chocolate museum, and I saw them on sale for dates less than two weeks out in peak season, so you can probably nab them with shorter notice than you’d need to get tickets directly from Lindt, but still not last minute.
If you’re really trying to find last minute tickets to the Lindt chocolate museum, your best bet is to book a guided tour. Availability varies, but these are often bookable only a day or two in advance since the museum reserves separate tickets for tour groups. We ended up doing this because although I had purchased tickets directly from Lindt, I bought them for the wrong date (*face palm*). We did this tour that included a walking tour of Old Town Zurich and a boat ride on the lake, before ending at the Lindt museum, and it was very nice.
How to Get to Lindt Home of Chocolate
You can get to Lindt on public transit (bus, train or ferry), along with a short walk. The bus will get you closer than the train or ferry. If you have time to kill, it’s also a nice ~40 minute walk along the lake from central Zurich. For those with mobility issues, you can also take a taxi or Uber directly to Lindt.
We opted for the ferry, also known as the Kleine Seerundfahrt, and it was really nice because you get a ~30 minute cruise on Lake Zurich, in addition to transportation to Lindt. The lakefront area in Kilchberg is very scenic.
The Lindt Chocolate Museum Experience
After a few minutes in the lobby area to admire the three story chocolate fountain (with real chocolate!) we grabbed our tickets and headed into the museum.
The museum areas are really nicely done and cover the process of turning a cacao bean into chocolate, the history of chocolate and how Switzerland came to play such a prominent role in this industry. It may be tempting to skip ahead through the museum area to get to the tastings (believe me, I get it) but I recommend giving it some time because it’s interesting and has some fun interactive exhibits for kids.
After that it’s on to the tasting room, where you can sample liquid white, milk and dark chocolate from fountains. There are also chopped chocolate bars to taste from these nifty hands-free dispensers – you just put your hand under the big canister of chocolate and a piece pops out. There are 8 or so different dispensers, each with a different flavor of chocolate, but they’re unlabeled so it’s kind of a mystery what you get, and fun to try them all. You can basically eat as much as you want in this room, and the chocolate was really good. I’m actually not a huge fan of Lindt’s signature Lindor truffles so my expectations were kind of low but the chocolate here was delicious, especially the liquid chocolate from the fountains.
The final area of the museum is an ode to Lindor truffles where you get to take one each of a bunch of different flavors. And then finally you exit through the gift shop. Even if you don’t plan to shop for chocolate, it’s worth taking a peek to see some of the artistic chocolate creations and fun displays.
Know Before You Go to Lindt Home of Chocolate
- You can only bring in small bags (about 7 x 11 inches). Larger bags will need to be left in their free storage lockers.
- In addition to the museum and chocolate tasting described in this post, Lindt also offers classes and workshops, and there is a small cafe on-site with both savory food and chocolate-based drinks and desserts.
Looking for more ways to sample chocolate in Switzerland? Check out my review of our chocolate tasting tour in Geneva and our chocolate making workshop in Lausanne!
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