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With the re-organisation of 1831, Kyburg Castle lost its administra- tive function and was put up for auction. The Polish count Sobansky spent the last years of his life here.

The subsequent owner (Matthäus Pfau from Winterthur) put his collection of paintings on display in Kyburg Castle. He was succeeded as owner by Eduard Bodmer who turned the castle into a museum in the style of the medieval romanticism. In 1917, the Canton of Zurich bought the castle and opened an exhibition, which remained unchanged until 1999. Since then, the Kyburg Castle Museum Association is in charge of the museum and under the overall control of Dione Flühler-Kreis a new permanent exhibition has been created and opened to the public in autumn 1999.