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Café du Château

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Tu – Su 9:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

Good Friday 07.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Easter 09.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Easter Monday 10.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Labour Day 01.05.2023 closed

Ascension Day 18.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Whitsun 28.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Whit Monday 29.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

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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Museum

openinghours.days.long.monday closed

openinghours.days.long.tuesday openinghours.until openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Café du Château

openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Mo closed

openinghours.days.long.tuesday openinghours.until openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Tu – Su 9:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

Good Friday 07.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Easter 09.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Easter Monday 10.04.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Labour Day 01.05.2023 closed

Ascension Day 18.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Whitsun 28.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

Whit Monday 29.05.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

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

Exhibition

Swiss Press Photo 22
18 November 2022 – 26 February 2023

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What is Switzerland?
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The Kitchen Garden
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Events

Public guided tour

Guided Tour - In the Kitchen Garden
5 February 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00

Public guided tour

Guided Tour - In the Kitchen Garden
5 March 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00

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Vernissage - Comics! Telling Women's Stories

Free admission

11 March 2023 | 16:00 – 18:00
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Latest blog posts

Secret support for Mary Stuart

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

26. January 2023

Rings can be more than simply adornment, expression of personal sentiment or symbols of status, they can also conceal or openly show allegiance to a political cause. In some cases, such affiliations could have dangerous consequences, even death.

This finger ring symbolises the wearer's loyalty to Mary I of Scotland, also known as Mary Stuart.
Victims of Labour – a memorial that broke the mould

Barbara Basting

24. January 2023

Artists were among the many to draw inspiration from the opening of the Gotthard railway tunnel 140 years ago. Prominent Ticino sculptor Vincenzo Vela created a contemporaneous memorial to those lost during its construction, entitled Victims of Labour. This key work was not particularly well received at the time, however.

Vincenzo Vela's Victims of Labour memorial in Airolo.
The dancing Sun King

Murielle Schlup

19. January 2023

French king Louis XIV liked to use dance as a way of projecting his absolute power. A year before his glorious coronation, he embodied the rising sun – dressed as the sun god, Apollo – in the centre of the planetary system.

Der 14-jährige Ludwig XIV. in seiner tänzerischen Paraderolle als Apollon im «Ballet royal de la nuit».
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