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Museum

openinghours.days.long.monday closed

openinghours.days.long.tuesday Geöffnet bis openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Café du Château

openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Mo closed

openinghours.days.long.tuesday Geöffnet bis openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Tu – Su 9:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

Swiss National Day 01.08.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer 17.09.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Monday of the Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer 18.09.2023 closed

Christmas Eve 24.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Christmas 25.12.2023 closed

St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

New Year's Eve 31.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

New Year's Day 01.01.2024 closed

Saint Berchtold 02.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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Exhibitions

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Comics! Telling Women’s Stories
11 March – 24 September 2023

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What is Switzerland?
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The Kitchen Garden
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Events

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Romeo and Juliet

Castle Tour 2023

9 June 2023 | 19:30 – 21:05

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Romeo and Juliet

Castle Tour 2023

10 June 2023 | 19:30 – 21:05

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Vernissage - Portrait Gallery

Free admission

15 June 2023 | 18:30 – 21:00
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Latest blog posts

Inventing the battlefield

Barbara Basting

6. June 2023

Paintings of battles often tell us more about the political backdrop than about military successes or acts of war. What they actually reveal are changing understandings of history.

A bold bird’s eye view: the Battle of Alexanderat Issus, painted by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529.
The Confederation’s policy of concordance

René Roca

2. June 2023

The Swiss Confederation has had a constitution since 1848. Yet the history of this legal document, which is still in force today, dates back much further. It would be almost impossible to imagine the federal state in its current form without this historical prelude.

Helvetia, enthroned in the centre, is crowned with a laurel wreath as she brandishes the new Federal Constitution. Instead of the usual allegories, she is flanked on both sides by citizens depicted in military uniform and in civilian dress, embodying the people as the supreme political authority.
Gull’s big break

Cristina Gutbrod

30. May 2023

Gustav Gull’s design for the Swiss National Museum in the late 19th century marked the start of his rise to become a star architect.

Gustav Gull’s design for the Swiss National Museum in Zurich’s application to host the museum, 1890.
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