Housed in the former Mountain Studios at Montreux Casino, this free exhibition invites you to explore Queen’s history and Freddie Mercury’s connection with the town.
Museum address: Casino Barrière de Montreux Rue du Théâtre 9 1820 Montreux
Use the Casino’s main entrance on Rue du Théâtre. The building is in central Montreux, around a 15-minute walk from the railway station. For advice on arriving by train, car or boat, see Getting to Montreux.
Admission to the exhibition inside the casino is free. It is open throughout the day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, from 9am to 9pm.
Allow around 30 minutes for an initial visit, or longer to explore the archives and try the mixing desk. You can visit at your own pace and continue with a walk to the Freddie Mercury statue on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The Queen – The Studio Experience exhibition is accessible to visitors with pushchairs and people with reduced mobility, including wheelchair users. Dogs are also allowed inside.
You can explore the exhibition independently and free of charge. To complement your visit, Freddie Tours offers guided tours exploring the history of Freddie Mercury and Queen in Montreux.
Your private visit to Montreux
Freddie Tours also offers private guided tours on request for groups and schools, to make the most of your visit to Montreux.
A local guide accompanies you on foot through places in the town connected to Freddie and Queen. The multimedia audioguide, available in six languages, enriches the route with period photographs, videos, music and exclusive anecdotes. The English version is narrated by Peter Freestone, Freddie Mercury’s personal assistant.
Mountain Studios is now an exhibition museum devoted to Queen and Freddie Mercury
Stage costumes, instruments and personal archives immerse you in the world of Queen and Freddie Mercury, in the very place where the band created some of its music.
Queen - The Studio Experience was opened on 2 December 2013 by Brian May and Roger Taylor. Created on the initiative of the Mercury Phoenix Trust, this permanent exhibition occupies the place where the band wrote and recorded part of its music. It offers a closer look at Queen through the objects, documents and working environment that accompanied their creative process.
The two lions at the entrance to the Queen Studio Experience in Montreux.
What can you see at Queen - The Studio Experience?
The display cabinets bring together stage costumes, instruments, photographs and documents from Queen’s archives. Freddie Mercury’s handwritten lyrics offer a different perspective on the songs, through the words and revisions of their author.
The exhibition explores the albums worked on in Montreux, from Jazz to Made in Heaven, and the band’s connection with Mountain Studios. The objects also offer insights into the worlds of Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, beyond Freddie’s stage persona.
The selection was developed with Greg Brooks, Queen’s official archivist. Several display cabinets were refreshed in 2026, notably with handwritten lyrics for songs such as Killer Queen and Don’t Stop Me Now.
The original control room and interactive mixing desk
The Control Room is the original room in which Queen worked. The original Neve mixing desk has been replaced by an interactive reproduction that lets visitors remix some of the band’s songs. By adjusting the tracks, you can hear the instruments and Freddie Mercury’s voice in a different way, and gain a better understanding of the work done in the studio.
It was also in this room that Freddie recorded his final vocal parts, including those for Mother Love, released after his death on the 1995 album Made in Heaven. This gives a special dimension to a visit to the museum, bringing you close to the place of his final recordings.
Mixing console in the control room at Queen - The Studio Experience in Montreux.
Archive footage and a cinema space
A screening area extends the visit with archive footage and extracts from the documentary Queen - Days of Our Lives. These sequences bring the band to life on screen and place the objects on display within the different stages of their career.
Queen and Mountain Studios, a story rooted in Montreux
Queen discovered Mountain Studios in 1978 while working on Jazz and bought the studio the following year. The band owned it from 1979 to 1993. Sound engineer and producer David Richards became one of their closest collaborators, and Montreux a place of creativity to which Freddie Mercury remained deeply attached.
The studio also welcomed artists including David Bowie, AC/DC and the Rolling Stones, as well as recordings of the Montreux Jazz Festival. Today, Queen - The Studio Experience lets you discover part of this musical heritage in its original setting.
The main room of Queen - The Studio Experience in Montreux.
An exhibition supported by the Mercury Phoenix Trust
The Mercury Phoenix Trust was founded by Brian May, Roger Taylor and Jim Beach in memory of Freddie Mercury. The organisation supports HIV and AIDS prevention projects and the fight against the disease worldwide. Admission to the exhibition is free, and visitors who wish to can support this work with a donation. Profits from Queen - The Studio Experience merchandise also go to the Trust.
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