The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Musée Visionnaire) Zurich is an art foyer art-lending library. Changing exhibitions will allow visitors to discover and re-discover contemporary Art Brut | Outsider Art and experience it within the context of related art forms. Special social events will be dedicated to topical subjects touching upon the world of art and current public issues.
The Helmhaus shows contemporary art with a focus on Switzerland and Zürich. Five exhibitions are mounted every year, covering the entire range of artistic media. Further events include discussions, conversations with artists, readings, film screenings and book launches.
The Museum has one of the most comprehensive private art collections in Switzerland, collected by Werner Coninx (1911-1980). There are oil paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and in particular Swiss works from the years 1850-1950 and from the Old European masters. The museum also exhibits a significant collection of works from the Central Asian Region.
The museum is one of the leading galleries in the Swiss cultural landscape. The Zurich Concretists Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Verena Loewensberg and Camille Graeser constitute the basis for the exhibitions and their accompanying events. The Rockefeller Dining Room (1963/64), conceived and implemented in New York by Swiss artist Fitz Glarner, is a centerpiece … Read more » “Haus Konstruktiv”
The program of the museum revolves around cultural hybrids that develop along the main routes and byways of global trade. These hybrid forms can include anything from sublime works of art to everyday objects or social practices. All point to unwritten chapters of transnational art history, to questions of post-colonial history, sociology and anthropology. The … Read more » “Johann Jacobs Museum”
The collection (Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich) consists of copies and original statues, portraits, glass, coins, reliefs, vases and other artefacts from ancient cultures in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Minor Asia, Greece and Italy. The works span 4000 years until the fifth century AD.
The collection (Graphische Sammlung ETH) encompasses Old Masters to young Swiss artists, etchings and drawings. the finest examples of every genre, style and era are accessible in this collection of works on paper. Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya and Picasso can be found alongside Félix Vallotton, Bernhard Luginbühl, Dieter Roth, Franz Gertsch and Urs Lüthi.
The exhibition comprises some 500 pieces from all fields of chronology, which are examined in technical and scientific terms as well as from an art-history point of view. It recounts the complete history of timekeeping from 1400 BC to the present day. The exhibition comprises rare and precious exhibits such as shadow sticks, sundials, oil-lamp … Read more » “The Beyer Clock and Watch Museum.”
The collection of the museum (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst) focusses on contemporary art, art history, Minimal Art and works involved with spatial construction and performativity.
The Kunsthalle organizes exhibitions on contemporary art and puts art into perspective of art history and society.