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10:00 - 17:00
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Due to an event, the museum and library will close at 5 pm on Thursday, 20 March.
20.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Good Friday 18.04.2025 all day
Kars Saturday 19.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Easter 20.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Easter Monday 21.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Sechseläuten 28.04.2025 closed
Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 19:00
International Museum Day 18.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Long Night of the Museums 06.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 23:59
Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2025 0:00 - 2:00
10:00 - 17:00
Knabenschiessen 15.09.2025 closed
Family Day 19.10.2025 10:00 - 17:00
22.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
23.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Christmas 25.12.2025 10:00 - 19:00
St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
27.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
28.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
30.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Day 01.01.2026 10:00 - 19:00
Saint Berchtold 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00
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openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.wednesday openinghours.openfromto.long
openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long
openinghours.days.long.friday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long
openinghours.days.long.monday closed
openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.wednesday openinghours.and openinghours.days.long.friday openinghours.openfromto.long
openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long
openinghours.days.long.saturday Open till openinghours.days.long.monday closed
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Due to an event, the museum and library will close at 5 pm on Thursday, 20 March.
20.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Good Friday 18.04.2025 all day
Kars Saturday 19.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Easter 20.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Easter Monday 21.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Sechseläuten 28.04.2025 closed
Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 19:00
International Museum Day 18.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Long Night of the Museums 06.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
18:00 - 23:59
Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2025 0:00 - 2:00
10:00 - 17:00
Knabenschiessen 15.09.2025 closed
Family Day 19.10.2025 10:00 - 17:00
22.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
23.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Christmas 25.12.2025 10:00 - 19:00
St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
27.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
28.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
30.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Day 01.01.2026 10:00 - 19:00
Saint Berchtold 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00
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Show allThe Swiss National Museum has the most comprehensive collection of textiles in Switzerland. Certain areas are reference collections.
Curator of Historical Textiles & Costumes up to1850 and Traditional Dress
Curator of Modern Textiles and Fashion up to 1850, Toys, Deputy Head of Cultural History 1
The collection spans the entire spectrum of textile techniques and functions. Highlights include woollen knitwear and wool and linen embroidery from the 13th to the 21st century. There is an important collection of textile archives and indiennes.
The focus is on women’s costume, but there is also an extensive collection of accessories, headgear and men’s waistcoats, as well as items of clothing from international couturiers that were made using Swiss textiles, and clothes from Swiss labels. 17th to 21st century.
The largest reference collection of Swiss traditional costumes, largely comprised of costumes collected by Julie Heierli, author of the definitive book on the subject, ‘Die Volkstrachten der Schweiz’ (Traditional costumes of Switzerland) (1922-1932).
Curator of Historical Textiles & Costumes up to1850 and Traditional Dress
Representative collection from the 15th to the 20th century of chasubles, copes, dalmatics, and Marian robes and veils, reflecting the acts of the Eucharist.
The collection boasts a wide assortment of valuable old flags. The foundation of the collection comprises the national and military flags kept for hundreds of years in armouries, churches and council chambers, as well as a number of flags once captured as booty.