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With the aim of combining sporting performance, culture and education in a festive atmosphere, the 3rd edition of the Youth Olympic Games will be held from 9 to 22 January 2020 in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital.

The Inferno Race, carried out for the first time in 1928, is today considered the biggest amateur ski race in international skiing.

26 years after becoming the Olympic Capital, Lausanne will become an Olympic City, as it hosts the 3rd edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games.

The Solothurn Film Days are the most prestigious festival of Swiss film.

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF), involving around 2'500 internationally known, leading economists, politicians, scientists and businessmen, is the flagship of Davos as a meeting place.

A championship ski-racing event with FIS ski races and downhill ski races featuring racers from Wales, Scotland, England and other alpine nations, including Switzerland.

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Ice-cold art in the glacier village: Over a period of 5 days, international teams of artists from all over the world design and create surprising figures and sculptures out of metre-high blocks of snow. Theme: Hospitality.

During 12 days the old town of Murten is going to turn into a lighting show of superlatives. The artistic productions on buildings, in the streets and on the towers of the town will immerse the visitors into a mysterious and magic world.

Len Lye (1901–1980), a native of Christchurch, New Zealand, was one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 1930s to 1950s.

The exhibition brings together exemplary works by renowned contemporary artists, who give varied forms to specific qualities of spatiality – acoustic, sculpted or drawn.

Voici quelque 60 ans que Arnulf Rainer (* 1929) pratique « la peinture afin de quitter la peinture ». Venu des horizons du surréalisme, de l’informel, voire de l’art brut, il a développé un art du recouvrement d’œuvres préexistantes.

For the Bauhaus anniversary year, the Kunstmuseum Bern is devoting an exhibition to Johannes Itten, an important Swiss artist and Bauhaus teacher.

These masterpieces on paper of Swiss Art of the 18th and 19th centuries can now be discovered in a comprehensive survey at the Kunst Museum Winterthur.

This exhibition is based on the generous gift made in 2015 by the artist’s daughter, Mrs Danielle Eliasberg, and unveils an aspect of the art of German emigrants in France after the Second World War.

Upheaval and new beginnings 1970 –1990

Ovid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a rich subject for a theme-based presentation of the fi ne arts collections linked to Antiquity.

Opening exhibition with the canton’s art collections presented across the MCBA’s 3,000 square metres.

Pirouetten drehen auf dem Bundesplatz: Vom 18. Dezember 2019 bis 16. Februar 2020 treffen sich jährlich tausende Eisprinzessinnen und Schlittschuhläufer vor der imposanten Kulisse des Schweizer Parlamentsgebäudes zum «Schlöfle» (Schlittschuhlaufen).

Throughout the Olympic Games, the media around the world spotlight athletes’ achievements and record-breaking exploits with stories about the passion, solidarity and personal challenges behind their success.

Since its invention in 1839, photography has aroused keen interest and Romandy is no exception to the rule. In Geneva and Lausanne, pioneering entrepreneurs opened shops selling photographic equipment and set up the first studios.

The exhibition sheds light on the exchange between Paul Klee and his friend Jacques Ernst Sonderegger, a Swiss artist et cartoonist.

Sigmund Freud claimed in 1917 that mankind has been confronted with three narcissistic outrages, making man an option among many.

Many children dream of travelling back in time. In the new family exhibition we make this dream come true!

The city and canton of Zurich have a long and chequered history. This will be shown in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum.

The St.Gallen Monastery Plan and Europe in the Early Middle Ages – Exhibition Hall at the Abbey Courtyard

With high-speed races down a winding ice track, bobsleigh certainly tests the strength, skill and mettle of its athletes. Its a challenge that elite competitors with physical disabilities will take up at the World Cup in January 2020.

The ice climbing competitions in the park of Saas-Fee are an excellent opportunity to seenational and international athletes ina unique place.

Since 1985 the worlds most prestigious winter polo tournament has combined style, tradition, emotions and of course the warmest Engadin hospitality. The sporting and social highlight is held in St. Moritz, the cradle of snow polo.

Verschiedene Käsereien bieten ihre Milch- und Käsespezialitäten an. Das einmalige Ambiente und das grosse Angebot an regionalen Spezialitäten machen das Käsefest einzigartig.

For the 42nd time the Swiss hot air balloon festival takes place at Château-d’Oex.

On Saturday, January 25th, 2020 the 14th cross-country sprint of the Ski Club Plasselb will take place in Col des Mosses.

Fribourg hosts the sixth Zähringer Narrentreffen on January 25 and 26! A Germanic tradition that brings together the cities of Zaehringen in Europe!

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The Fondation Beyeler’s 2020 spring exhibition will show works by Edward Hopper (1882–1967), one of the 20th century’s most important American painters.

In eight years of continuous development and consolidation, artgenève has established a top-quality contemporary and modern art show that has an international reputation.