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Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2024 10:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 23:59
Long Night of the Museums 08.09.2024 0:00 - 2:00
10:00 - 17:00
Knabenschiessen 09.09.2024 closed
Event from 5 pm 12.09.2024 10:00 - 17:00
Family Day 20.10.2024 10:00 - 17:00
Christmas Eve 24.12.2024 10:00 - 14:00
Christmas 25.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
27.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
28.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
29.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
30.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Eve 31.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Day 01.01.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Saint Berchtold 02.01.2025 10:00 - 19:00
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Show allTemporary exhibition
The opening exhibition of the National Museum Zurich is devoted to the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a cultural era that gave birth to some of the most important advances in human history: the invention of the printing press using movable letters, the discovery of an unknown continent and the formulation of a new view of the earth and its place in the universe. It was a time when people sought to solve the riddles of nature, experimented with alchemy, set out to develop a new medical science, conceived a new vision of mankind and created abundant beauty in the form of pictures, architecture, sculpture and literature.
All these discoveries and creations would have been unimaginable without a broad and dynamic exchange at many levels. The Renaissance was an era of dialogue, new horizons in thinking, transformations and cultural interaction over great distances and time.
The exhibition invites visitors to trace the movements behind these momentous changes and interaction. It refers to artworks, instruments and objects of everyday life as historical sources. A committee of renowned specialists contributed to the exhibition’s commentary.