Opening times

Museum

Tu – Su 10:00 – 17:00

Mo closed

Café du Château

Tu – Su 9:30 – 17:30

Mo closed

Special opening times

Fr 4/10/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Good Friday

Su 4/12/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Easter

Mo 4/13/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Easter Monday

Fr 5/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Labour Day

Th 5/21/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Ascension Day

Su 5/31/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Whitsun

Mo 6/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Whit Monday

Sa 8/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Swiss National Day

Su 9/20/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Sunday)

Mo 9/21/2020 closed Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Holiday Monday)

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Opening times

Museum

Tu – Su 10:00 – 17:00

Mo closed

Café du Château

Tu – Su 9:30 – 17:30

Mo closed

Special opening times

Fr 4/10/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Good Friday

Su 4/12/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Easter

Mo 4/13/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Easter Monday

Fr 5/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Labour Day

Th 5/21/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Ascension Day

Su 5/31/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Whitsun

Mo 6/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Whit Monday

Sa 8/1/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Swiss National Day

Su 9/20/2020 10:00 – 17:00 Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Sunday)

Mo 9/21/2020 closed Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Holiday Monday)

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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.

M.A. Bernard A. Schüle

Deputy Head of the Collection Centre, Head of Object Centre and Registrar, Curator, Ethnography and Technology

Collection Centre Object Centre +41 44 762 13 40 bernard.schuele@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.

M.A. Bernard A. Schüle

Deputy Head of the Collection Centre, Head of Object Centre and Registrar, Curator, Ethnography and Technology

Collection Centre Object Centre +41 44 762 13 40 bernard.schuele@nationalmuseum.ch

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