{"title": "Fantastical maps from legendary stories", "start": "2026-10-29T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentralbibliothek Zürich", "address": "Zähringerplatz 6, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["literature/fantasy", "history"], "description": "The exhibition “Fantastical Maps from Legendary Stories” presents rare and remarkable maps from literature and film, bearing witness to how maps have served for centuries as instruments for explaining concepts, disseminating ideas and telling stories. It is conceptually informed by J. R. R. Tolkien’s notion of the “Cauldron of Story”, according to which fictional narratives and their maps emerge from a continual process of blending, layering and reinterpretation. A chronological route along the outer wall unfolds more than seven centuries of literary works, myths and cartographic traditions, while the centre shows historical maps, including early modern maps of Switzerland. The exhibition is shaped by the dialogue between the “Ex Carta” collection of fictional cartography and the map holdings of the Central Library of Zurich, which rank among the most significant in Switzerland.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/fantastical-maps-from-legendary-stories-59618/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97f93066218282cc1a75c74645630227c1f69e4a5c28fc1916a6d5e4802aa4a4-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentralbibliothek Zürich", "address": "Zähringerplatz 6, 8001 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Fantastische Karten zu legendären Geschichten", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zentralbibliothek Zürich", "address": "Zähringerplatz 6, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.zb.uzh.ch/de/events/mapping-the-imagined-von-der-fantasy-kartografie-zur-visualisierung-von-ideen-in-raumplanungskarten?date=1178", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["literature/fantasy", "art"], "description": "'Fantastische Karten zu legendären Geschichten' is an exhibition in the Schatzkammer of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich showing maps from literature and film as cultural artefacts in their own right. It joins the private collection 'Ex Carta' on fictional cartography with the holdings of the library's Maps and Panoramas department. Works ranging from J. R. R. Tolkien to Harry Potter and Robinson Crusoe appear alongside historical maps, notably early modern maps of Switzerland. The tour itself is designed as a Tolkien-inspired 'Cauldron of Story', accompanied by guided tours, a quiz and a digital exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/fantastische-karten-zu-legendaren-geschichten-25963/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d2795af4ae805cbe065f1c0b481301ac76a9142a82264dda6ce866810a820ec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Geburt von Mittelerde auf Tolkiens Reise in der Schweiz 1911", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentralbibliothek Zürich", "address": "Zähringerplatz 6, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.zb.uzh.ch/de/events/die-geburt-von-mittelerde-auf-tolkiens-reise-in-der-schweiz-1911", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/switzerland", "literature/fantasy"], "description": "A lecture about the young J.R.R. Tolkien's journey through the Swiss Alps in the summer of 1911 and how it shaped his later literary work. Sarah Heinzelmann and Lukas Ritzel trace the footsteps of this journey and show how landscapes and experiences from Switzerland flowed into the geography and atmosphere of Middle-earth. The talk illuminates the connection between real places and fantastic worlds. Attendance is free, but registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/die-geburt-von-mittelerde-auf-tolkiens-reise-in-der-schweiz-59874/", "official_url": "https://www.zb.uzh.ch/de/events/die-geburt-von-mittelerde-auf-tolkiens-reise-in-der-schweiz-1911", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbf30e8f5302ef245aa91b4c50ce854beb9ee618db2191a78e9c961b694eb2cc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "«Michael Taussig: \"Postcards for Mia\" – The role of images in ethnographic notebooks and in our ways of thinking»", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "At Cabaret Voltaire, the exhibition «Michael Taussig: \"Postcards for Mia\" – The role of images in ethnographic notebooks and in our ways of thinking» opens. For more than half a century, anthropologist Michael Taussig has drawn and painted in his ethnographic fieldwork notebooks; the show presents the postcards addressed to Mia together with drawings and watercolours from the notebooks and from his books, among them Corpse Magic (2025). The image is not an illustration of a thought but a thought conducted by other means, and homesickness runs through the work. The opening at 7 pm features a conversation with Michael Taussig, Rosa Barba, Anselm Franke and Corinne Diserens; the exhibition is co-organized by the Chair of Art in Space and Time, ETH Zurich, the MA Cultural Critique, Curatorial Studies, and Cabaret Voltaire.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/michael-taussig-postcards-for-mia-the-role-of-images-in-ethn-4786/", "official_url": "https://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/#node-133812-de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f772b834ec992a457f16166540eed166a28784049cc6ff6920d36afb880d761f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Planetariumsshow: Sternbilder und Mythologie", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/astronomy"], "description": "The planetarium show \"Sternbilder und Mythologie\" takes the audience on a live journey through the night sky. Urs Scheifele and Matthias Hofer, operators of the mobile Planetarium Zürich, show how people have always connected stars into figures and seen animals, heroes and deities in them. Visitors discover the Great Bear circling the celestial north pole without ever setting, and learn where the most beautiful double stars, nebulae and galaxies can be found. The show lasts 45 minutes, is in German and suitable for everyone aged 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/planetariumsshow-sternbilder-und-mythologie-68926/", "official_url": "https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/meet-eth/wowhochzwei/31-oktober-2026/sternbilder-und-mythologie.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9087f560027bffed030072e6b0f1c5c3b651a07b0f46edb6aa699296fcd7432-2000.webp"}, {"title": "1100 Jahre Stadtgeschichte in der Fraumünster-Krypta", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Der Besuch des Krypta-Museums ist im Eintrittspreis von CHF 5.– inbegriffen.", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history/zurich"], "description": "The exhibition in the crypt museum beneath the Fraumünster choir presents 1100 years of the city's history. It offers insight into the development of the abbey, the Reformation and the history of today's Fraumünster. On show are archaeological finds such as the head of a Mary statue recovered during excavations in 2013, a testimony to the iconoclasm, along with drawings and animations documenting the building phases of the abbey. Also featured are facsimiles of letters by Heinrich Bullinger, an Ulrich Bible from 1755 and portraits of all pastors since 1524.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/1100-jahre-stadtgeschichte-in-der-fraumunster-krypta-59645/", "official_url": "https://zuercher-museen.ch/museen/altstadtkirchen/ausstellung-krypta-fraumuenster", "image": "https://noky.io/images/378f464d1b69d70fa44e7b30d4e928453cf15c3a68252d95555193fb5cd7a2bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Grafik. Visuelle Gestaltung im Alltag", "start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.zuerich-kultur.ch/kultur/zuerich/museen/kunsthaus.zuerich/kunsthaus.zuerich.html#seg140471", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "The exhibition \"Grafik. Visuelle Gestaltung im Alltag\" shows the power of visual communication in everyday life. It draws on the extensive graphics collection of the Swiss National Museum. Historical posters and objects illustrate how graphic design creates desire, conveys stereotypes and shapes cultural identities. The second part makes design tools and craft processes visible, and interactive stations invite visitors to try things out themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/grafik-visuelle-gestaltung-im-alltag-69481/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd602af7e9cdab973f1e764158a62c4584f10e83e6f4f126f0db58b91b543806-600.webp"}, {"title": "Aktuelle Ausstellung: «Zehn Leben – Die Geschichte einer Stadt»", "start": "2026-11-01T13:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:30:00+01:00", "place": "Friedhof Forum", "address": "Aemtlerstrasse 149, 8003 Zürich", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "The exhibition «Zehn Leben – Die Geschichte einer Stadt» is a room installation with an audio guide at the Friedhof Forum. It is a cooperation of Einfach Zürich and Friedhof Forum, with an overall concept by Reto Bühler, Katja Wolf, Maria Tschudi Bebié and Michèle Wannaz and texts by Michèle Wannaz. The last 200 years of Zurich's history are told through the lives of ten people buried at the Friedhof Sihlfeld, ranging from world-famous to lesser-known figures such as Johanna Spyri, Hulda Zumsteg and Mariella Mehr. With the audio guide, visitors hear actor Thomas Sarbacher weaving these ten biographies into a tapestry of history (duration 95 minutes).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/aktuelle-ausstellung-zehn-leben-die-geschichte-einer-stadt-6487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e05a83c8773b7d44038f076adae17c21a8e8a4123be2cfb02f5bab25068f37f0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "«Michael Taussig: \"Postcards for Mia\"» – Ausstellung", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cabaret Voltaire", "address": "Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "An exhibition titled «Michael Taussig: \"Postcards for Mia\"» at Cabaret Voltaire. It presents Michael Taussig's work and deals with the role of images in ethnographic notebooks and in our ways of thinking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/michael-taussig-postcards-for-mia-ausstellung-31936/", "official_url": "https://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/#node-133812-de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f772b834ec992a457f16166540eed166a28784049cc6ff6920d36afb880d761f-1200.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", "tickets_url": "https://www.zuerich-kultur.ch/kultur/zuerich/museen/kunsthaus.zuerich/kunsthaus.zuerich.html#seg140471", "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"}]}