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Landesmuseum Zürich

Landesmuseum Zürich

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Landesmuseum Zürich

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Location: Zurich, Switzerland

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1. Above the roofs of Zurich

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2. Oberer Letten River Pool – Swiss National Museum Zurich loop from Unterengstringen

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3. Oberer Letten River Pool – Limmat River loop from Buchs-Dällikon

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Paul

December 5, 2024

National Museum Zurich National Museum
The Zurich National Museum (until 2009: Swiss National Museum) is the most visited historical museum in Switzerland. It was opened on June 25, 1898. Since January 2010 it has been part of the Swiss National Museum (SNM). This institution comprises three cultural history museums and a collection center. It is subordinate to the Federal Department of Home Affairs.
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Paul

December 5, 2024

Founding / National Museum Zurich National Museum
Although for years after the founding of the federal state in 1848 it was not yet clear that Switzerland would build a national museum at all, in 1891 the canton of Zurich prevailed over the other applicant cities of Basel, Bern and Lucerne for the location of a new national museum at the federal level. The national museum was opened in 1898 in a newly built castle-like building by Gustav Gull to the north-west of the main hall of the main train station near what is now Platzspitzpark in Zurich. Eugène Ruffy led the festivities for the inauguration of the national museum on June 25, 1898: the cantons were depicted in 20 pictures, comparable to the guilds of today's Sechseläuten. Each canton had an "allegorical carriage" with it, which represented a special feature of the canton. The procession was led by a "magnificent carriage of Helvetia", and the last carriage was a carriage with "Turica, the protector of art". Zurich won a competition against other Swiss cities with the "Fairytale Castle" project. The building combines a wide variety of architectural styles and has therefore been controversial since its construction.
The Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments, however, expressed itself in an expert opinion dated November 27, 1897 with the following words:
"With the National Museum as a stand-alone building, Gustav Gull responded architecturally precisely to the task at hand. The chosen form of a "medieval castle complex" reflects history and makes the complex easily recognizable as a museum building. The building for national history forms an essential counterweight to the main train station, then as now the hub of progressive, forward-looking public transport. With its main courtyard, the complex opens up to the Platzspitz park, which forms a striking border between it and the city. With consistent construction around the main courtyard and the entrance courtyard, with a tight floor plan concept that deliberately uses exceptional situations, and with striking vertical accents, the museum is powerfully realized, an expression of the self-confident federal state." The tuff stone used for the construction comes from Libingen (SG)
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Katharina Siegel

February 19, 2024

The National Museum near Zurich's main train station is reminiscent of a fairytale castle. Anyone who enters the courtyard through the archway, which is open to the public, will discover a modern new building that balances out the original building, which is in the historicist style.

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1. Above the roofs of Zurich

2. Oberer Letten River Pool – Swiss National Museum Zurich loop from Unterengstringen

3. Oberer Letten River Pool – Limmat River loop from Buchs-Dällikon

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