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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Ausstellungsstrasse
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005 Zurich
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Toni-Areal
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zurich
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Pavillon Le Corbusier
Lee Miller – A Photographer Between War and Glamor
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller was an outstanding photographer and a strong, modern woman. Miller did not bother with conventions, neither privately nor professionally, and went her own way as an artist, portrait photographer, and war reporter. The first-ever exhibition in Switzerland of her life's work features some 200 originals.
28.8.2020 – 3.1.2021
Toni-Areal
Le Corbusier and Zurich
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is dedicating its second exhibition at the Pavillon Le Corbusier to the relationship between the Swiss architect of the century and the city of Zurich – the most important platform for his international reputation.
9.6. – 29.11.2020
Pavillon Le Corbusier
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
Switzerland in World Format
One special feature of the Swiss poster is the "world format" (128 × 90.5 cm), which established itself as the standard format only in Switzerland. The 80 posters on display invite visitors to saunter through the history of Swiss posters.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Animal Energy
Tiger slippers or feather hats, the silhouette of an alpine procession or a porcelain cat: designers have always used animal materials and forms to create artistic worlds of images and objects.
12.5. – 25.10.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Norm – It's Not Complicated
The precise solutions developed by the Zurich design agency Norm are characterized by strict design rules like grids, proportions, and modularity. Their exhibition examines the most fundamental elements and laws of graphic design.
12.5. – 27.9.2020
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
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a pioneer of the Swiss Style, which he was instrumental in shaping in the 1950s and '60s.
31.8. – 15.11.2020
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Magie im Sachplakat
In den Schaufenstern der Schweizerischen Nationalbank präsentiert das Museum ausgewählte Plakate aus seiner bedeutenden Sammlung.
31.7. – 30.10.2020
Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Norm 123456789
Norm presents a series of posters in the Toni-Areal entrance hall. The surprising diversity of these posters reveals Norm’s creative freedom within the confines of seriality.
12.5. – 27.9.2020
Toni-Areal