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Ausstellungsstrasse
Pavillion Le Corbusier
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Original objects, photographs, posters, video installations, and a model railway invite visitors on a journey through time—from the company’s beginnings to tomorrow’s mobility.
Until 5.1.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Design Laboratory: Materials and Technology
Ceramics dripping from a 3D printer? Clothing that helps one get up? Bacteria instead of leather for a shoe? What sounds like science fiction is already within reach.
Until 6.9.2020
Toni-Areal
Knowledge in Images – Information Design Today
Whether for visualizing big data, publishing journalistic findings, spatial orientation, or as material promoting effective learning and teaching—information design explains the most diverse contents within the shortest time through combining much visual material with few words.
Until 8.3.2020
Toni-Areal
Collection Highlights
Featuring 2000 highlights from this internationally significant collection, the newly refurbished main building invites visitors to discover the world of beautiful, useful, and curious everyday objects.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Ideal Living
Seven sample rooms, furnished with highlights from the collection, present the most important trends in Swiss furniture design of the modern age and trace changing lifestyles.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Poster Stories
Featuring around 80 posters, the exhibition provides insights into the immense collection and illustrates the collection’s thematic, geographical, and historical scope.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Photographics: Klein, Ifert, Zamecznik
Light drawing, photograms, photomontages: the search for a contemporary visual idiom for the postwar period inspired artists and designers to experiment with photography.
Until 9.2.2020
Toni-Areal
Special programs
Swiss Design Lounge
How about biding your time while discovering and trying out outstanding Swiss design at the same time? The
Swiss Design Lounge
at our newly refurbished main building on Ausstellungsstrasse now offers visitors first-hand experience of re-edited Swiss furniture classics as well as of contemporary designs.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Josef Müller-Brockmann – Photographic Experiments
Josef Müller-Brockmann was one of the most influential representatives of constructive Swiss graphic design, which consistently used photomontage in its advertising graphics. Depending on the commission, Müller-Brockmann preferred objective, expressive, or abstract photography.
Until 9.2.2020
Toni-Areal
Le Corbusier – Seen by René Burri
Featuring 17 original photographs, the small permanent exhibition reflects Burri’s view — of both Le Corbusier’s work and person.
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Guests at the SNB: Gold, Money, Happiness
Since 2000, the windows of the Swiss National Bank in the heart of Zurich have been displaying thematically selected posters from the rich holdings of the Museum für Gestaltung’s poster collection. The posters are viewable in the groundfloor windows along the Stadthausquai, Börsenstrasse, and Fraumünsterstrasse.
Until 30.1.2020
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich