- Sustainable preservation of visual, textual and audio documents as well as original objects, installations and vehicles of rail-bound transport in Switzerland and neighbouring countries as well as of the Swiss rolling stock industry.
- Professional documentation, digitisation, restoration and archiving of the objects and archives.
- Ensuring that private and commercial donors have continuous access to the objects they have contributed.
- Networking and cooperation with existing collections and archives.
- Appropriate publication in publications, press products and at demonstrations for interested persons and institutions from private, scientific and commercial circles.