With a remarkable art collection and with exhibitions generating vibrancy across nations the Kunsthaus Zurich attracts every year hundreds of of housands of visitors.

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The museum Rietberg is a museum for artworks from Asia, Africa and Oceania. It’s the one and only art museum in Switzerland for non-European cultures. It’s the third biggest museum in Zurich and ranks first as an enterprise run by the city itself. The Museum Rietberg consists of  several historical buildings such as the Villa Wesendonck, the Remise, the Park-Villa Rieter and the Villa Schoenberg.

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Supporting programs complementing the exhibitions turn this Swiss national museum, located next to the Zurich main railroad station, into a vivid forum for debate. The offer consists of  presentations, speeches, panel discussions, workshops, concerts, etc.

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The Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of Dadaism. Its rooms in the center of Zurich serve alternatively as club, showroom, tavern and theater. A vivid cultural venue aiming at crossing bridges from Dadaism to contemporary social and cultural drifts.

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This folklore museum of the Zurich university is located in the old boatic gardens – called „Park zur Katz“ – one of the most beautiful spots in downtown Zurich, encircled by the moat called Schanzengraben.  There is plenty of scope for an enjoyable learning experience in the temporary exhibitions,  the varied performances, the mysterious archives and a public library.

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Ever since its foundation in the year 1996, the  Migros museum for contemporary arts considers itself to be the venue of  contemplative reflection as well as  of production. The exhibitions demonstrate history of art  as a floating process, open for revisal, amendment and variation.

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The Museum Bellerive, which since 1968 accommodates the Museum fuer Gestaltung (meaning figuration) in Zurich, has made its mark across the board as museum for applied arts in the field of limited-lot and unique copy production. As venue for global communication the museum contributes with its art exhibitions to the intensive contest of  contemporary producing and the drifts of  modern design.

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The Centre Le Corbusier is a modern building and  - so to say – „Gesamtkunstwerk“ designed by the architect Le Corbusier in Zurich.Inside the Centre, the Heidi-Weber-Museum  is

accommodated now  wherein  the  life and works of  Le Corbusier are documented. The works  in their entirety,  embracing architecture, interior decoration, painting and sculpture reflect in an unrivaled manner the various facets of the arts and the creative will of its originator.

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The museum Strauhof is located in the center of Zurich’s historic quaters called Niederdorf, not far from Zurich’s central shopping district, the Bahnhofstrasse. Its rooms still look more like rooms of a residential home yet  they’re quite convenient for temporary exhibitions relating to literary themes.

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The NONAM, Nordamerika Native Museum for Native American and Inuit culture in Zurich is a folklore museum exhibiting the arts and the culture of the Northamerican indigenous Indian tribes  and of the Inuit. The present-day collection comprises nearly 2000 objects as well as a sumptuous collection of colored engravings of the legendary painter of  Native Americans, Karl Bodmer, to whom a special room is devoted in the museum. Beyond that, the museum possess a representative specialized library which can be used for the purpose of studies.

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