Events in Zurich - Art exhibitions

The 1,000-m2 Swiss history exhibition depicts how Switzerland came to be over a period of 550 years.

Marina Abramović, a pioneer of performance art, is showing her first major retrospective in Switzerland at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

The city and canton of Zurich have a long and chequered history. This will be shown in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum.

The city and canton of Zurich have a long and chequered history. This will be shown in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum.

This exhibition tells the story of the poster, using exclusively reprints of works by international women designers, for once.

With his impressive landscape paintings, the Canadian painter and illustrator Matthew Wong (1984 Toronto - 2019 Edmonton), who died young, became a phenomenon shortly before his death.

The traditional nativity scene exhibition at the National Museum presents nativity scenes from all over the world and this year places a special focus on animals and their symbolism.

Many children dream of travelling back in time. In the new family exhibition we make this dream come true!

NONAM invites you on a short journey through the great North America and offers exciting insights into the art and cultures of indigenous nations.

With objects, works of art, photographs and documents, the exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Switzerland's colonial history for the first time.

Numerous food stands and cozy moments

«Collection Insights» examines selected objects in the collection from different angles and explore how the museum’s collecting, exhibiting, and educational activities are interconnected.

Group exhibition with expansive works of art by Carlos Bunga, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Fritz Glarner, Ana Montiel, Reto Pulfer, Christine Streuli and Esther Stocker.

An online exhibition to take part in

In this exhibition, Hervé’s images of the works of numerous master builders will be shown alongside the oeuvre of Le Corbusier.

The permanent exhibition features more than 1,000 items from the collection, including nostalgic memorabilia, documents and images from FIFA's archives.

From October 2019, the Swiss National Museum’s collections will be presented in the renovated historical west wing of the National Museum Zurich.

Images for all the senses

Kunst, Kolonialismus und Restitution

Bossard Goldsmiths Lucerne

The permanent exhibition «Archaeology in Switzerland» is shown in the first upper floor in the new wing of Christ Gantenbein Architects.

The exhibition provides an opportunity to discuss social conventions, ethics and aesthetics.

What binds a community together? Initially one might assume it is to do with having the same language, external enemies or economic interests.

With numerous originals and creations that have never before been shown outside of Japan, the exhibition provides an insight into the vast array of its contemporary design practices.

The exhibition Water shows design concepts from across the globe that have the potential to radically reshape our future.

From markets to department stores to online: where and how we shop has changed drastically over the past 170 years. And consumption itself is constantly evolving, too.

State intervention in the lives of people who failed to conform to social standards was once common practice in Switzerland.