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Planet Digital
Starting from 23 current research projects by the most creative minds of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions the exhibition takes the public along on a sightseeing tour of the world of digitalization.
11.2. – 6.6.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Architecture Icons Revisited
The exhibition presents the portraits of seven of Le Corbusier’s buildings by seven contemporary photographers. On a journey through France and Switzerland the show invites the public to discover his architecture from new perspectives.
Until 27.11.2022
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Atelier Zanolli – Fabrics, Fashion, Craft, 1905–1939
Silk fabrics sprayed with an airbrush, opulently embroidered cushions, colorful objects made of beads or wood: The exhibition uses objects designed by the Zanollis with an enormous love of detail to recount the eventful story of this family business.
Until 4.9.2022
Toni-Areal
Queens of their Discipline – Posters by Women Designers
The poster is the supreme discipline in graphic design. This exhibition tells the story of the poster, using exclusively reprints of works by international women designers, for once.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Textile Garden
With pieces of Fibre Art, the exhibition evokes associations with plants, flowers or weather phenomena and invite the public to immerse themselves in an atmospheric presentation.
Until 30.10.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Collectomania – Universes of Collecting
Barbie dolls, liturgical vestments, water pistols or birdcalls – With a variety of design pieces and objects from daily life as well as video portraits the exhibition enquires into the social and cultural value of this activity.
Until 8.1.2023
Toni-Areal
Haettenschweiler from A to Z – Creator of Typefaces, Graphic Designer, and Artist
Walter F. Haettenschweiler is best-known as a designer of title fonts that are refreshingly different to the mainstream. This show is the first ever presentation of the complete work of this charismatic Swiss designer.
14.10.2022 – 19.2.2023
Toni-Areal
Willy Guhl: Thinking with Your Hands
Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl designed world-famous seating furniture such as the Eternit Loop Chair or Europe’s first bucket seat made of plastic. The exhibition uses design processes, prototypes, photos, and films to present his creative work.
9.12.2022 – 26.3.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures
Zurich photographer and filmmaker Alberto Venzago masterfully shuttles between the worlds of reportage and advertising, documentary and fiction. Venzago’s first museum exhibition showcases his work in an opulent retrospective.
9.7.2021 – 2.1.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
6 Rooms × 6 Positions
The museum has invited contemporary Swiss designers to each decorate a room using objects from the museum’s collection.
Ausstellungsstrasse
Le Corbusier and Color
The new exhibition at the Pavillon Le Corbusier traces the main stages in Le Corbusier’s treatment of polychromy and invites visitors to indulge in a sensual experience of color in three installations.
7.5. – 28.11.2021
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Plant Fever – Towards a Phyto-centred Design
Plant Fever brings together some fifty international projects and innovative solutions to current environmental and social issues, investigating plants’ hidden potential.
3.12.2021 – 3.4.2022
Toni-Areal
Formafantasma: Cambio – Tree, Wood, Human
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, design duo Formafantasma investigate the global timber industry and explore the role of design in the climate crisis.
3.12.2021 – 8.5.2022
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
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.
12.5.2020 – 15.5.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse

Special programs

Otl Aichers Olympiad
Until 18.9.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Stadtgesichter – Stadtgeschichten
Until 28.9.2022

Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Bürowelten
30.4. – 29.7.2022

Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Ace of Lace
Until 18.9.2022
Toni-Areal
Museumjung: Zimmer Nr.7
29.3. – 17.4.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Niklaus Troxler – Tape It Easy
23.4. – 10.7.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Typografische Verführungen
Schrift erobert den Raum oder wird zum Bild, Buchstaben, Worte, Sätze werden zerlegt und beschnitten, Handschriften ausprobiert und neue Schriften erfunden.
1.2. – 30.4.2022

Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Subtle Appeals: Environmental Protection Posters from Japan
Japanese graphic designers have been addressing environmental problems for decades. With timeless posters they raise awareness for the need to protect our natural world.
25.2. – 17.4.2022
Toni-Areal
Bold Intervention – Environment Posters by Klaus Staeck
Ever since the 1970s, German political graphic artist Klaus Staeck has been urgently warning with his posters of the dangers of man-made climate change and environmental destruction—with vicious irony that has a way of making our laughter get stuck in our throats.
25.1. – 20.3.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Von Flügeln und Hörnern
1.11.2021 – 31.1.2022

Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
The Best of 2021
8.12.2021 – 16.1.2022
Ausstellungsstrasse
Zu Gast bei der SNB: Zum Wohl!
Werbung insbesondere für Spirituosen unterliegt in der Schweiz strengen Richtlinien. So ist es mithin kein Zufall, dass in Plakaten für Spirituosen, Wein und Bier die Getränke selbst zu Hauptdarstellern werden.
1.8. – 31.10.2021

Schweizerische Nationalbank, Fraumünsterstrasse 8, 8001 Zürich
Bernard Chadebec: Unfallprävention mit Charme
Von 1965 bis 2005 produzierte Chadebec 300 verschiedene Plakate. Die Nordwand präsentiert fünf seiner Plakate in Form von riesigen Reklametafeln.
3.12.2021 – 13.2.2022
Toni-Areal
Education Showcase: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures
In the showcase, the education department of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich presents young perspectives on the exhibition Alberto Venzago: Taking Pictures – Making Pictures.
12.10. – 21.11.2021
Ausstellungsstrasse
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