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  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss Federal Fast 21.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Monday of the Swiss Federal Fast 22.09.2025 closed

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen's Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

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The University of Zurich’s grandmother turns 500

Tobias Jammerthal

19. June 2025

The first public lectures were held in Zurich in June 1525. This marked the beginning of higher education in the city on the Limmat, which would lead to the founding of the university 300 years later.

Gelehrtentreffen in Zürich, dargestellt auf einer Druckgrafik aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

The last otter

Claudia Aufdermauer

17. June 2025

Systematic hunting, changes in habitat and pollution are all contributing to otters dying out, as it says on the label describing an over 100-year-old prepared specimen on exhibit in the Naturama natural history museum in Aarau. The ‘end of the otter in Switzerland’ in 1990 is closely intertwined with the country’s economic history.

Die Schweizer Filmwochenschau berichtete 1952 über das bedrohte Leben der Fischotter.

The emperor who spoke Swiss-German

Michael van Orsouw

13. June 2025

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (1808–1873) grew up in Salenstein in the canton of Thurgau, which is why he spoke the local Swiss German dialect. Although he was French, the people of Thurgau awarded him honorary citizenship. When Switzerland refused to expel him, it almost resulted in war with France.

Louis-Napoleon, der spätere Kaiser Napoleon III., wuchs im Thurgau auf und sprach daher fliessendes Schweizerdeutsch. Illustration von Marco Heer.
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