Museum sights in Zürich
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James Joyce Foundation
James Joyce spent much of WWI in Zürich and wrote Ulysses here. The James Joyce Foundation hosts regular public readings in English from Ulysses (5.30pm to 7pm Tuesday) and Finnegan’s Wake (7pm to 8.30pm Thursday).
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Beyer Museum
Beyer Museum is a small museum chronicling the rise of timekeeping, from striated medieval candles to modern watches. It is inside a shop, whose display of precision time instruments is almost as extraordinary as the museum collection.
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Migros Museum
Migros Museum, displaying contemporary art, is one of two main museums in the converted Löwenbräu brewery, which also houses several galleries, a bookshop, a fitness centre and offices.
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Schweizerisches Landesmuseum
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum is a large cream cake of a museum. The permanent collection includes a tour through Swiss history, plus there are usually enticing special exhibitions.
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Museum Für Gestaltung
Consistently impressive and wide-ranging, the exhibitions at the Museum für Gestaltung include anything from Bollywood to ‘short stories in photography’.
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Johann Jacobs Museum
Johann Jacobs Museum is as addictive as the coffee to which it is devoted. The permanent collection includes everything from coffee pots to paintings of coffee houses.
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