The municipality of Vaz/Obervaz includes the following villages: Lain, Muldain, Zorten, Lenzerheide, and Valbella, as well as the hamlets of Nivaigl, Fuso, Trantermoira, Sporz, Tgantieni, Sartons, Creusen and Obersolis.

On the southern slope of Mount Crap la Pala, the land rises steeply up the sharply cut sides of the ravine of the Albula.

Of the rest of the land, 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (12.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

The Jenische (a race of nomadic people) who called Obervaz home were mostly on trips to peddle goods, and therefore hardly influenced the population statistics.

Nevertheless, the death records show, between 1892 and 1905, 115 farmers, 2 table-ware salesmen, and peddlers and one bell caster.

(Source: Website of the municipal school of Vaz/Obervaz) Even today many Jenische live in Vaz/Obervaz, for example, the Moser and Kollegger families; some even take public office.

Other Jenische whose families' have called Vaz/Obervaz home live spread throughout Switzerland, particularly in the cities of St. Gallen, Zürich, and Basel.

Still alive, although mostly in central Switzerland, are some "Vazer Jenische," in their "home-wagons" who still follow their traditional trades.

Although the established Jenische of Obervaz are well integrated, the Vazer are, on the whole, understandably unhappy that they are still being labeled "Gypsies."

The council selects their agenda, decides on the creation of new offices, and the proclamation of generally not obligatory regulations.

Further, they are responsible for obtaining permission for supplemental credits of up to 500,000 Franks and for construction projects in the municipality.

[4] The rise of skiing as a sport considerably promoted the creation of health resorts in the then recently established Lenzerheide and Valbella.

They hesitated a long time in promoted tourism, and showed themselves, to this end, as less accessible than the populations of other health resorts.

The similar success of the repetition during the next year, suddenly made Lenzerheide well known as an outstanding ski area.

In the following years a pleasing increase in the number of visitors prompted the building of new hotels and the continual improvement of the tourism infrastructure.

The inventory of the belongings of the Frankish crown in Raetia made in 831 mentions Lain, Muldain and Zorten along with their churches.

The bishops of Chur, Schams and Obervaz bought the inheritance of Ursula from an impoverished Count Werdenberg Sargans for 3600 Gulden in 1456.

During the next centuries, the municipality became successively more democratic and free, only during the Thirty Years War was it shortly lead back to a condition of insecure rights, the results of which included material loss, debt, and economic ruin.

The time after the war was shaped by problems of authority between political, religious and native justice, over arguments about forest usage and municipal borders.

Connected to these arguments were others between the Vazers, the Churwalders, and the Parparners about the forest usage rights on Mount Stätz.

In this way the Walser settlement of Schall behind Mount Piz Danis became completely desolate, and has since only been recently settled.

The collection includes items used for agriculture, examples of early crafts, diverse items from village life, sacred pieces from the local churches, a model of the village mill, the history of the Free Lords of Vaz, and sculptures of Ferdinand Parpan.