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Café du Château

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Special opening times

  • Pentecost 19.05.2024 all day

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 all day

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2024 all day

  • Swiss Federal Fast 15.09.2024 all day

  • Monday of the Swiss Federal Fast 16.09.2024 closed

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2024 all day

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2024 closed

  • St. Stephen's Day 26.12.2024 all day

  • New Year's Eve 31.12.2024 all day

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2025 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2025 all day

  • Good Friday 18.04.2025 all day

  • Easter Sunday 20.04.2025 all day

  • Easter Monday 21.04.2025 all day

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Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Café du Château

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Special opening times

  • Pentecost 19.05.2024 all day

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 all day

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2024 all day

  • Swiss Federal Fast 15.09.2024 all day

  • Monday of the Swiss Federal Fast 16.09.2024 closed

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2024 all day

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2024 closed

  • St. Stephen's Day 26.12.2024 all day

  • New Year's Eve 31.12.2024 all day

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2025 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2025 all day

  • Good Friday 18.04.2025 all day

  • Easter Sunday 20.04.2025 all day

  • Easter Monday 21.04.2025 all day

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Technology & traditions collection

Technology & traditions

The collection includes a wide range of objects from everyday life and items for crafts and trades. Workshop equipment is an important feature. Modern technologies are present in the collection in the form of objects such as computers, electrical devices and means of communication.

accessibility.sr-only.person_card_info Dr. phil. Erika Hebeisen

Curator, Ethnography and Technology

National Museum Zurich
Cultural History 1 +41 44 218 66 01 erika.hebeisen@nationalmuseum.ch

Measuring instruments

The collection includes globes, surveying instruments (16th-20th century) and automated devices. Some of the objects, such as the famous 16th-century terrestrial and celestial globe from St Gallen, are part of Zurich Central Library’s permanent loan collection.

accessibility.sr-only.person_card_info Dr. phil. Erika Hebeisen

Curator, Ethnography and Technology

National Museum Zurich
Cultural History 1 +41 44 218 66 01 erika.hebeisen@nationalmuseum.ch