Coat of Arms of Switzerland
About the project
'Coat of Arms of Switzerland' is a digital collector's album for the coats of arms of the Confederation, all 26 cantons and their municipalities.
The idea
Switzerland carries its history in its coats of arms — on town signs, fountains and flags, from the federal cross down to the smallest village. They are scattered across thousands of places, and most of us walk past them without a second look. This project gathers them into a single album: a way to notice the arms around you, learn where they come from and what they mean, and slowly bring the whole country together on one shelf. It is built out of love for the subject, not for profit: the album is free, there is nothing to buy and nothing to unlock with money, and every collector plays from exactly the same shelf.
The arms and their sources
The coats of arms are drawn from Wikimedia Commons, where each file carries its own licence — most are public domain or Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA). The maps combine official boundaries from swisstopo's swissBOUNDARIES3D dataset (Swiss Open Government Data) with lake outlines from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). All of these sources are credited in the footer of every page.
How it works
You collect much as you would with a paper sticker album. Each day you can open a free pack and discover a handful of arms; the ones you are missing slot into a bound, page-turnable album, while doubles can be traded back for cards you still need. Many crests come in special editions — a metallic finish, or historical versions from earlier centuries — so a page is never quite finished. Beyond the album, an interactive Atlas lets you roam the 26 cantons on the map, Wappen-Guessr asks you to place a crest where it belongs and scores you by how close you land, and daily streaks and leaderboards reward coming back. All of it is free: no ads, no paid shortcuts, no edge for spending money — just the arms, the album and the map.