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10:00 - 17:00

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  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Décors. Masterpieces from the Collections
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Making silk from nettles! Working with fibres

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Latest blog posts

Psychotropics – from lab to billboard

Pascale Meyer

8. January 2026

From LSD and Largactil to Valium, psychotropic drugs fundamentally changed the treatment of mental disorders in the 1950s and quickly became marketing-driven products. Swiss pharmaceutical companies played a key role in this.

«Sicherheit mit Tofranil»: Die Werbung für das Medikament aus dem Hause Geigy stellt Medikamente als sichere und effektive Lösungen für psychische Erkrankungen dar.

Inventing Saxon Switzerland

Barbara Basting

6. January 2026

The mountain peaks and cliff tops of Saxony reminded Swiss artist Adrian Zingg of his homeland. He captured them in his drawings, thus helping them on their way to fame, and coined the name by which the region is still known today: Saxon Switzerland.

Druckgrafik von Adrian Zingg aus dem Jahr 1770. Die sächsische Landschaft könnte auch in der Schweiz liegen.

Remembering the Second World War – but how?

Thomas Bürgisser

1. January 2026

In 1995, Switzerland commemorated the end of the war in 1945, and the Federal Council issued an official apology for the country’s refugee policy during that period. At the time, nobody could have anticipated that Switzerland’s role in the Second World War would feature so much in Swiss foreign policy for years to come.

Am 7. Mai 1995 sprach der damalige Bundespräsident Kaspar Villiger vor der Vereinigten Bundesversammlung. Er gedachte an das Kriegsende von 1945 und entschuldigte sich für die Schweizer Flüchtlingspolitik während des Zweiten Weltkrieges.
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