Museums

Thanks to the bequest by John A. Brown, a descendent of Sidney und Jenny Brown-Sulzer who died in 1987, Villa Langmatt was made accessible to the public as an Impressionist art and home decor museum. The Villa, built in 1900/01 by the architects Moser and Curjel, is home to a gallery with paintings by important French Impressionists and their forerunners.

This international award-winning museum offers a rich variety of insights into castle life over the last 800 years.

The Technorama is not just an exhibition of natural science, technology, technoart and phenomena.

The Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten presents about 600 paintings of German, Swiss and Austrian artists from the 18th to the 20th century. Until 1 August 2010 the two Oskar Reinhart collections are to be merged temporarily. The renovation of the Villa Am Römerholz provides a unique opportunity to see an important selection of its world-famous paintings by old masters and French Impressionists at the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten in Winterthur, set here in an exciting dialogue with part of Reinhart’s collection of paintings by German and Swiss painters.

The E.G. Bührle Collection is one of the most prestigious of private art collections. It comprises medieval wood carvings and paintings by the old masters, but above all works by French artists of the 19th and 20th century.

Besides the permanent collection, the Kunsthaus presents changing exhibits which make the museum one of Switzerland's leading exhibition centers.

The "Green Hill", the enchanting Rieter Park, and its historic mansions form a unique backdrop for the presentation of the art of Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania.

French paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries
are exhibited in the authentic ambience created by the museum-architects Rittmeyer & Furrer in the former private villa of the collectors Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler.

Fotomuseum Winterthur (Photo Museum Winterthur) The Photo Museum Winterthur is the only museum of photography in the German speaking part of Switzerland. It is located in a converted factory. Photography in all its variety is presented in changing exhibitions, lectures and publications. It is a place for photography as an art form and a visual documentation of reality. Fotostiftung Schweiz (Photo Foundation Switzerland) The Fotostiftung Schweiz (Swiss Foundation for Photography) was founded in 1971 and is committed to the preservation, discovery and referral of photographic work. It takes care of an archive and a collection, which to date comprises more than 30 bequests and approximately 30,000 original prints of outstanding photographers.

Located in the heart of Zürich, the Swiss National Museum houses Switzerland’s largest collection on cultural history. The over 100-year-old building is reminiscent of a fairytale castle. On 1st August 2009, two new permanent exhibitions opened. Entitled “History of Switzerland” and “Collections Gallery,” they will offer a fascinating insight into Swiss history from its origins to the 20th century.