{"title": "ILLUMINARIUM", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "price": "Festival grounds: free; evening ticket (all shows): adults CHF 23.90, teens (10–16) CHF 14.90, child", "price_from": "14.90", "price_to": "23.90", "tickets_url": "https://illuminarium-2026.shop.bookinea.app/de", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art"], "description": "ILLUMINARIUM transforms the courtyard of the Zurich State Museum into a winter festival of lights with immersive light shows, a fondue chalet, food stands and DJs. Behind the festival is the artist collective PROJEKTIL (We Are Projektil AG), which created three light shows of about 25 minutes each: two Yuki shows for young and old and a digital art show based on works by Paul Klee. The shows turn the courtyard's facades into a screen, combining light, music and playful knowledge, for example about the biodiversity of the rainforests. The festival area is free to enter; tickets are only required for the light shows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/illuminarium-73769/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Landesmuseum", "address": "Museumstrasse 2", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Führung zum Plan Lumière", "start": "2026-11-11T17:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "A walking tour through Zurich's illuminated city centre, starting at the Kunsthauseingang Altbau entrance at Heimplatz. The tour is run by the City of Zurich, which is behind the Plan Lumière, a guide for site-specific lighting planning. Since 2004 a wide range of lighting projects have been realised, and some of them are presented on the tour. The Plan Lumière gives Zurich an attractive night-time appearance and strengthens the city's uniqueness after dark.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/fuhrung-zum-plan-lumiere-20216/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70a51566fd858d54a5a42fb9171ea054d1f463fa8d2d92e70fc3bb6f191f0d7d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Licht", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster"], "description": "Licht is a pop-up exhibition of posters on the subject of light, shown in the windows of the Swiss National Bank in Zurich. It is put together by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, which selects works from its poster collection, and hosted by the Swiss National Bank, which has offered its windows for such presentations since the year 2000. The focus lies on the depiction of artificial light and on posters about lighting design and the effect of light, among them a tourism poster by Eugen Bachmann and a Winterhilfe poster from 2005. Contrasts of light and dark and layered colour values make the pictured light appear to vibrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/licht-21166/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db3b12589fb3afbf3a9210fa9f2a852fd636a857e143459b9b8637dca5c0c449-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lichterfest", "start": "2026-11-08T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Musikpavillon Sihlhölzli, Manessestrasse, neben Sportplatz, 8003 Zürich", "address": "", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/festival-of-lights", "community"], "description": "The Lichterfest is a festival at which the Sihlhölzli park is illuminated together. Behind the festival are Soziokultur Kinder, the Reformierte Kirche Kreis 3, Quartierarbeit GZ Heuried and Pfarrei Herz Jesu Wiedikon, Youth. The programme includes a craft activity, communal singing and a fire show by Herz-Feuer, with a small food and drink offering. In advance, lanterns are made at various places free of charge for different groups; the festival is accessible and suited to families and children.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/lichterfest-20515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/861e13b9ec4b70c393b46a405bee6317a90695bfde91554229f5faf2dbc196ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color", "start": "2026-10-30T10:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum für Gestaltung", "address": "Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zürich", "price": "kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "This is the opening (vernissage) of the exhibition \"Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color\" at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich at the Toni-Areal. It centers on designer Sabine Marcelis and her work with light and color, presented by the museum. The evening opens with welcome remarks and an introduction by museum director Christian Brändle and curator Damian Fopp, after which the exhibition is open. Admission is free and without registration, the event is accessible and offers sign language interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-6311/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-10-29", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ae593042cb7d31c34335bd77f1577f778966871f515ac1cff933847f4461390-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Das Geheimnis des Lichts", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthaus", "address": "Heimplatz 1, 8001 Zürich", "price": "CHF 40, CHF 20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/das-geheimnis-des-lichts/tickets", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Das Geheimnis des Lichts\" is a workshop for children aged 9 to 13. Participants discover in the Grossmünster the church windows made by the artist Sigmar Polke from wafer-thin cut stones that are made to glow by the sun. Back at the Kunsthaus, they take a close look at Polke's works. In the studio, they create their own work with real stones and other materials, guided by Samira Agha Majidi.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/das-geheimnis-des-lichts-6119/", "official_url": "https://www.kunsthaus.ch/besuch-planen/programm/das-geheimnis-des-lichts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b79e335d8e7023b62621d24b93278cf44364dba7ad65bd23169230ae8378e12-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sabine Marcelis - Licht und Farbe (Vernissage)", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste", "address": "Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich", "price": "Siehe museum-gestaltung.ch", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "This evening marks the opening of the exhibition \"Sabine Marcelis – Light and Color\" at the Toni-Areal. The Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis (*1985) plays with light, color, reflections and transparency, transforming translucent materials such as glass, resin or natural stone into luminous objects. The exhibition brings together central bodies of work with site-specific light pieces, including an eleven-meter walkable light tunnel made of 125 lamps and an installation featuring giant lava lamps and mirror walls. It is Marcelis' first museum exhibition, and the opening offers sign language interpretation as well as wheelchair and stroller access.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/sabine-marcelis-licht-und-farbe-vernissage-59451/", "official_url": "https://museum-gestaltung.ch/de/events/sabine-marcelis-light-and-color-2026-10-29", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4aba298cf765be751ecf7d40f019377c3884a0dbc6fd2d36bd68e6501b36494f-2000.webp"}]}