Welcome
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, the leading Swiss museum of design and visual communication, welcomes you at two sites in Zurich – at Ausstellungsstrasse and at the Toni-Areal.
Information on the coronavirus:
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich remains closed until further notice.
Please check here before visiting.
Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm
Wednesday 10am–8pm
Special opening hours and holidays:
Adults CHF 12/8*
Groups (10 persons or more) CHF 8
For both museum sites:
Combined one-day ticket CHF 15/10*
Annual pass CHF 50/25*
*Reduced admission:
Students and apprentices, senior citizens, disabled person’s pass, KulturLegi
Included in admission:
Exhibitions, public guided tours, and talks
Under 16 years
Companion of people with disabilities (only if required)
Friends of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Relatives ZFH incl. ZHdK
Swiss Museum Pass incl. Raiffeisen
Swiss Travel Pass
Zürich Card
ICOM
Schweizerischer Werkbund
Please note that you are required to produce valid ID at the ticket office.
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Sites, getting here & access
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005 Zurich
+41 43 446 67 39
welcome@museum-gestaltung.ch
Public transport:
Tram 4/13/17, «Museum für Gestaltung»
Private vehicles:
Disability parking is available outside the museum entrance. Fee-based parking is available at the near-by Parkhaus Hauptbahnhof on Sihlquai. Bicycle racks are provided outside the museum.
The exhibition rooms at Ausstellungsstrasse are wheelchair-accessible or accessible by lift. Strollers can be deposited at the cloakroom.
Our guided tours and museum education programmes are also wheelchair-accessible.
We kindly ask you to point this out when registering.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zurich
+41 43 446 67 38
welcome@museum-gestaltung.ch
Public transport:
Tram 4, “Toni-Areal”
Private vehicles:
Limited fee-based parking including spaces for persons with disabilities is available. Access to the multi-storey car park at the Toni-Areal is via Förrlibuckstrasse. Also located close-by is the multi-storey car park P-West. Bicycle parking is available around the building.
The exhibition rooms at Toni-Areal are wheelchair-accessible. Strollers may be taken into the exhibitions.
For conservation reasons, the number of participants on guided tours of the collection archive is limited to 12 persons. Guided tours are also wheelchair-accessible. We kindly ask you to point this out when registering. Strollers are not permitted in the archives and can be deposited at the museum entrance during the guided tour.
Current exhibitions
All around your visit
Use the new eGuide to explore the design- and graphic highlights at our main site on Ausstellungsstrasse! The fully virtual eGuide offers background information and stories – in images and texts, videos and sound – on more than 200 exhibits from the museum's collection as well as tours on various topics for children and adults.
You can use the eGuide free of charge on your own smartphone or borrow one of our devices during your visit at the site Ausstellungsstrasse.
Join one of our regular tours at Toni-Areal and take a look behind the scenes of our impressive collection.
The collection archive is only accessible on guided tours. Please note that the number of participants per tour is limited for conservation reasons.
The museum café at Ausstellungsstrasse offers a regional and sustainable range of fresh food and beverages. Treat yourself to a cup of hand-roasted coffee or try our changing menu of cold and warm dishes over lunchtime.
Product design and visual communication, fashion and decorative arts, architecture and photography: let us guide you through our temporary exhibitions and our newly launched collection exhibitions at Ausstellungsstrasse. Or take a look behind the scenes of the collection archive at the Toni-Areal.
The visitor regulations are intended to enable you to enjoy your visit and to provide for the safety of all persons and objects.
Since 2019, the Pavillon Le Corbusier on Lake Zurich is run as a public museum by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich on behalf of the City of Zurich. Completed in 1967, it is the last building designed by the important architect and his only building made of steel and glass.