The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The collection of the museum houses the biggest collection of Viennese Modernism outside Austria, besides German painters from this period, for example works by Oskar Kokoschka, the landscape paintings of Gustave Klimt and Egon Schiele, the Tunis aquarel by Paul Klee, the only known self portrait of Oskar Schlemmer or the collage of Kurt Schwitters, … Read more » “Museum of Art Zug”
The Museum of Prehistory (Museum für Urgeschichte) offers an exhibition about the archaeological finds from Canton Zug. A tour with true-to-life scenes, settlement models and stories visualises everyday life from the Ice Age to the Early Middle Ages. The section ′rare witnesses′ is devoted to extraordinary wooden artefacts from Lake Zug. At special events in … Read more » “Museum of Prehistory”
The castle (Museum Burg), the former seat of the Lenzburgs, Kyburgs and Habsburgs, is a museum of (cultural) history for the City and Canton of Zug.
The museum (Fischereimuseum) shows the history of fishing and its related objects around 1900 and next to it a chamber of curiosities reminiscent of the chambers of curiosities of the late Renaissance and Baroque periods. The aim of the museum and fishing association is also the preservation of fish stocks, water, nature and landscape conservation.
The museum presents the local history and organizes cultural-historical and art exhibitions.
The museum explains in an understandable way the geological processes in and on the planet. It shows exciting aspects of the earth and shows how earthquakes are triggered, what causes volcanoes to erupt, where gems come from and what fossils tell us about the origin of life. The exhibition also explains how the Alps originated … Read more » “FocusTerra”
Das Museum (Nordamerika Native Museum, NONAM) is dedicated to the culture, art, life and history of the Indians and Inuit of North America through an extensive collection and changing exhibitions.
A multimedia exhibition explains the origins of the economic system and the role of the stock market. The exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into the (Swiss) financial market, and provides fascinating links between economic history and the modern innovations of the financial sector. Key historical pieces from one of the world’s biggest and most important … Read more » “Swiss Finance Museum”
The Kunsthaus boasts a collection of paintings from the golden age of Dutch painting, the Flemish and Italian baroque, and the Venetian Settecento. It also shows works by masters from Bern and Zurich. The Kunsthaus also exhibits an important group of French paintings ranging from Géricault to Manet to the Impressionists and the Nabis and … Read more » “Kunsthaus Zurich”
The museum (Landesmuseum Zürich) shows the history of Switzerland from its early beginnings until the present day. The archaeology exhibition (Archäologie-Ausstellung) focuses on the main stages of human history from prehistoric times to the conversion to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. “Swiss history” (Geschichte Schweiz) provides a comprehensive insight into the political history of the … Read more » “Zwitsers National Museum Zurich”