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Swiss National Museum

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Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Swiss National Museum
Phone:
+41 44 218 65 11

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 7pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The Swiss National Museum — part of the Musée Suisse Group, itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture is located in the city of Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, next to the Hauptbahnhof. The museum building of 1898 in the historicist style was built by Gustav Gull in the form of the French Renaissance city chateaus. His impressive architecture with dozens of towers, courts and his astonishing park on a peninsula between the rivers Sihl and Limmat has become one of the main sights of the Old City District of Zurich. The exhibition tour takes the visitor from prehistory through ancient times and the Middle Ages to the 20th century . There is a very rich section with gothic art, chivalry and a comprehensive collection of liturgical wooden sculptures, panel paintings and carved altars. Zunfthaus zur Meisen near Fraumünster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum. There are also: a Collections Gallery, a place where there are Swiss furnishings being exhibited, an Armoury Tower, a diorama of the Battle of Murten, and a Coin Cabinet showing 14th, 15th, 16th century Swiss coins and even some coins from the Middle Ages. The boats of the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft start their round trips on the Limmat through the city of Zürich at the Swiss National Museum.
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