{"title": "Archaeology in Switzerland", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "CHF 13.00 / 10.00", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/archaeology"], "description": "The permanent exhibition «Archaeology in Switzerland» is shown in the first upper floor in the new wing of Christ Gantenbein Architects. Visitors are introduced to Switzerland's rich archaeological heritage through finds from mountainous regions, glaciers, lakes, cities and villages. Key historical developments are illustrated chronologically, from the appearance of the first human being more than 100,000 years ago to the spread of Christianity and its consolidation around 800 AD. At individual research stations, visitors can learn how man and the environment have influenced each other over the centuries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/archaeology-in-switzerland-59661/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb8800fb7b066fb6f716795e93e400ad4d6809ff9b1f531230603aea9c24fea8-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "History of Switzerland", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "CHF 13.00 / 10.00; Children and young people up to 16 years: free admission", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "The 'History of Switzerland' exhibition depicts on 1,000 square metres how Switzerland came to be over a period of 550 years. It begins in the late Middle Ages and ends with the challenges facing democratic institutions today. The show at the Landesmuseum Zürich illustrates the journey from a confederation of states to a federal state as a struggle for identity. It also dares to examine contemporary history, which is often considered taboo for historical museums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/history-of-switzerland-59662/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848190559f6a30ca4fdf26986119577f34b0fd8693147b4bb808ca6c2305ce97-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kunst und Kunsthandwerk der Antike", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Archäologisches Institut der Universität Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/antiquity", "art"], "description": "An important collection of ancient art and crafts from the Mediterranean region and the Near East. The Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich, the oldest archaeological museum in Switzerland (1854), displays original ancient works as well as historical casts of ancient statues. These offer a comprehensive overview of Greco-Roman sculpture. Special exhibitions complement the display with insights into the latest archaeological research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/kunst-und-kunsthandwerk-der-antike-59656/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The collection", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "CHF 13.00 / 10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "The collection is a permanent exhibition at the National Museum Zurich, presenting the Swiss National Museum's collections in the renovated historical west wing since October 2019. Across two floors and around 2,000 m², more than 7,000 exhibits showcase Swiss artistry and craftsmanship spanning roughly 1,000 years. Highlights include the 11th-century sacred palm donkey, the St. Gallen Globe, one of the largest surviving 16th-century globes, the Alice and Louis Koch ring collection, and recently restored period rooms from all over Switzerland. The objects and rooms are part of Switzerland's cultural and historical heritage, displaying the country's cultural diversity and history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/the-collection-59663/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fc7129a9b1996449cfe0b368da401612dda6eb5b911dbfde75ef92c2349abf2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wir und der Krieg", "start": "2026-04-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "\"Wir und der Krieg\" is an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich. From different perspectives, it shows how wars from the late Middle Ages to today have influenced political structures, economic interests and social orders in Switzerland, as war is a formative element of Swiss history. Behind the exhibition stands the Landesmuseum Zürich, which, under the roof of the Swiss National Museum, presents Swiss history from its beginnings to the present day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/wir-und-der-krieg-69478/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b23b9aea516969b6679f7a51566d0d2ab7997ac94a3f40e2f5ff163b79503e32-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ideas of Switzerland", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "CHF 13.00 / 10.00; children and young people up to 16 years free", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "«Ideas of Switzerland» is a permanent exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich. It asks what binds a community together and presents works by four authors whose ideas shaped the image of contemporary Switzerland: Henri Dunant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean Calvin and Petermann Etterlin. The exhibition is completely wheelchair accessible and runs until 1 January 2030, from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:00.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ideas-of-switzerland-59658/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e4c4b345bc83106cb65d89559fa174f556ebf3f8590386aa97a096093dea61ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Simply Zurich", "start": "2026-11-04T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "Free entrance. (Get your free ticket at the Welcome Desk of the museum.)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history/zurich"], "description": "Simply Zurich is a permanent exhibition at the National Museum in Zurich. It presents the long and chequered history of the city and canton of Zurich through some 60 historical objects. From a pile-dwelling settlement to the muesli grater and the handbook for squatters, the exhibition explores Zurich's rich past. Cinematic installations and state-of-the-art technology add a multimedia dimension.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/simply-zurich-59660/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Das Vermächtnis Amazoniens", "start": "2026-11-08T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Rietberg", "address": "Gablerstrasse 15, 8002 Zürich", "price": "CHF 18 / CHF 14 reduziert", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/archaeology"], "description": "The exhibition \"Das Vermächtnis Amazoniens – Kunst und Archäologie\" invites visitors to discover Amazonia as one of South America's most diverse cultural regions. The Museum Rietberg presents monumental structures, richly decorated ceramics and spectacular rock paintings from a past reaching back at least 13,000 years. The show also introduces worldviews still alive in many indigenous communities, in which nature and culture are not seen as separate. In this way it encourages us to rethink our relationship with the world and explore new ways of living together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/das-vermachtnis-amazoniens-59759/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32a632cce2a8f69c927621f64967585229b56a9cac37cc38bfdc11b33ae46a66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mythen der Archäologie", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturama", "address": "Englischviertelstrasse 9", "price": "im Museumseintritt inbegriffen (ohne Voranmeldung)", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/archaeology"], "description": "\"Mythen der Archäologie\" is a public guided tour at the museum. The archaeologist Emanuela Jochum gets to the bottom of the best-known myths surrounding archaeology and shows how archaeological findings shape our picture of the past. In doing so, she draws connections between then and now. The tour is suitable for everyone aged 8 and up and is included in the museum admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mythen-der-archaologie-5997/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturama.ch/angebot/mythen-der-archaeologie/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Informationsveranstaltung für Lehrpersonen", "start": "2026-11-11T15:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum Rietberg", "address": "Gablerstrasse 15, 8002 Zürich", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/indigenous-peoples"], "description": "An information event for teachers about the exhibition of art, archaeology and indigenous knowledge: using rock paintings, ceramic objects and indigenous world views, it shows how people have lived in relation to their environment and depicted it for thousands of years. The introduction presents the school programme for the exhibition and demonstrates how pupils can explore questions of identity, symbolism, community and human-nature relationships creatively and in a hands-on way. The practical studio work and its connection to the content is also explained. Led by Franziska Aeschbach and Christiane Ruzek; meeting point is Smaragd/museum entrance, duration approx. one hour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/informationsveranstaltung-fur-lehrpersonen-97589/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10e71dd5a3d206c50a3bf6156e2b97472e09240d6217fd12410eb3bc7bda9b5d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Abgusssammlung antiker Plastik", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Archäologisches Institut der Universität Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "history/antiquity"], "description": "The Abgusssammlung antiker Plastik is a permanent exhibition of historical casts of classical sculpture. It belongs to the Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich, the oldest archaeological museum in Switzerland, founded in 1854. The collection includes ancient original works of art and crafts from the Mediterranean region and the Near East and offers a comprehensive overview of Greco-Roman sculpture. Special exhibitions complement it with insights into the latest archaeological research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/abgusssammlung-antiker-plastik-59655/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2adb094eb773660ee5e3acbe53252174b2611a53438ccce227fa507ac73df653-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Models – shaping knowledge", "start": "2026-11-09T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["science"], "description": "The special exhibition \"Models – shaping knowledge\" presents more than 500 historical and contemporary models, many of them on public display for the first time. They come from the collections of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich and show how models have made knowledge visible and shaped research for over 150 years. The exhibition was curated by Roberta Spano and Dr Dorothe Zimmermann, with scenography by Schmauder Und. Its breadth spans anatomy and geometry to crystallography and aerodynamics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/models-shaping-knowledge-59612/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/52189f9244b70fabc31e7487f5d772b6f567cf7311707d7dcacb3e4c77de9174-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture/religious-architecture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation' presents historical and contemporary projects from Switzerland showing how empty religious buildings can be transformed. It is an exhibition by ZAZ BELLERIVE, curated by Fabian Ruppanner and Nora Hochuli. As many places of worship increasingly stand empty and their upkeep becomes difficult, parishes are seeking alternative property strategies. Ranging from removed church pews to demolition, the many paths of transformation are meant to foster a collective discourse on the transformation and preservation of sacred buildings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/out-of-service-swiss-sacred-architecture-in-transformation-68875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccefce9912450061b9ec1c6f4cc0e6c9cc1ac394f09d1edcb6c523fa90011cbb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bankenland Schweiz", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/switzerland"], "description": "'Bankenland Schweiz' is an exhibition at the Landesmuseum Zürich about the history of Swiss banking. Using impressive objects, it shows how deeply money, credit and trust are rooted in Swiss identity – from Jewish moneylenders and Lombard merchants via savings banks, cantonal banks and big banks to banking secrecy and Switzerland's rise to a financial hub of world standing. Crises such as bankruptcies, international criticism and spectacular takeovers are also examined. Interactive media stations, surveys and playful elements for children invite visitors to engage with today's banking country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/bankenland-schweiz-69479/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b39b15de5b2ba2a8bb0856ee0d40c92c7f26a46a86c4994ad740655451c95617-600.webp"}, {"title": "Modelle – Wissen formen", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/history-of-science"], "description": "\"Modelle – Wissen formen\" is an exhibition with more than 500 historical and current models, many shown to the public for the first time. The pieces come from the collections of ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich. They show how models make knowledge visible, in fields from anatomy and geometry to crystallography and aerodynamics. It is curated by Roberta Spano and Dr. Dorothe Zimmermann.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/modelle-wissen-formen-8311/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/580b5737283e5fb9ab281aea3dd577cf95a37bdb18413ccdd8bf456801c521e0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NEU! Baugrund Schweiz", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Focus Terra", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "tours", "tags": ["science/earth-sciences"], "description": "«NEU! Baugrund Schweiz» is a public Sunday tour at ETH Zürich. The programme is run by focusTerra, the Earth science research museum of ETH Zürich. The tours last about one hour and no registration is needed. Topics include earthquakes – including a visit to the earthquake simulator – the current special exhibition and the permanent exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/neu-baugrund-schweiz-32251/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df886f21c43e96ded4609f502da6ff4511dad9f5acd7de1cf352bde9855940e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Renaming – People, Things, Places", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich", "address": "Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/languages"], "description": "\"Renaming – People, Things, Places\" is a special exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology of the University of Zurich. Names have power: they shape our sense of self, how others treat us, and how we perceive the world. The museum has outgrown its name and is looking for a new one; the exhibition is part of this transition and invites visitors to reflect on the motivations behind and consequences of name changes. Using objects from the museum's collection as a starting point, it explores what it means to name or rename people, things, and places, and brings to light the diverse stories associated with names.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/renaming-people-things-places-59608/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71cd3b7d5ce24db460fa6b20fa64a2006de5541bb8b58402055f0e62159ffb56-2000.webp"}]}