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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
6 Rooms × 6 Positions
The museum has invited contemporary Swiss designers to each decorate a room using objects from the museum’s collection.
Ausstellungsstrasse
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
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.
24.6.2022 – 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
Game Design Today
The exhibition presents an overview of contemporary video game culture.
Until 23.7.2023
Toni-Areal
Repair Revolution!
The exhibition presents a vision of a repair society and the role that design can play in getting there.
Until 15.10.2023
Toni-Areal
The Modulor—Measure and Proportion
The search for ideal dimensions and a universally applicable system of proportions occupied Le Corbusier throughout his life. The exhibition illustrates his in-depth research.
Until 26.11.2023
Pavillon Le Corbusier
Akris. Fashion. selbstverständlich
The exhibition explores the inspirations of the international St. Gallen fashion house while providing insight into the sophisticated craftsmanship or technical processes behind the collections.
Until 24.9.2023
Ausstellungsstrasse
Visual Poetry – Contemporary Posters from Iran
The museum’s collection of Iranian posters is unrivalled anywhere in Europe. The exhibition is now presenting a new donation of works dating from the last twenty years.
21.7. – 29.10.2023
Toni-Areal
Claudia Caviezel: Caleidoscope
The exhibition features textile objects, large-format prints, sketches, and recent works in order to give viewers a comprehensive look at the unique working methods of the award-winning Swiss designer.
1.9.2023 – 7.1.2024
Toni-Areal
Talking Bodies – Body Images in the Poster
The exhibition opens up a multifaceted examination of body images in their cultural, social, and political dimensions.
3.11.2023 – 25.2.2024
Ausstellungsstrasse
Margrit Linck, Pioneer of Ceramics
As a tribute to the important Swiss ceramics pioneer, the exhibition showcases objects from all phases of her career alongside drawings, plans, and photographs, illustrating her enduring influence on contemporary ceramics.
1.12.2023 – 28.4.2024
Toni-Areal

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