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Beyer Museum
The Beyer Museum is devoted to time pieces of all kinds, from shadow sticks to striated medieval candles to Renaissance table clocks to watches that check their own accuracy via a wireless connection with an atomic clock. The exhibition is arranged chronlogically and has a technical as well as an aesthetic emphasis.
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Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the iconoclastic Dada art movement. It has been reopened as an exhibition space cum café/bar, dedicated to modern Swiss art and hosting Dada-related events.
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Foundation Emil G Bührle Collection
The Foundation Emil G Bührle Collection is another inspiring private collection with a wealth of late-19th and early-20th-century art. Yet another little treasure-trove of European masterpieces, art lovers should definitely visit this former private home, the most notable works by Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the other usual fin-de-siècle suspects.
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James Joyce Foundation
Hosts regular public readings in English from Ulysses ( to Tuesday) and Finnegan's Wake ( to and to Thursday).
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Johann Jacobs Museum
Johann Jacobs Museum is as addictive as the coffee to which it is devoted. Temporary exhibitions range from the scientific effects of caffeine to displays of chinaware.
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Kunsthalle Zürich
Kunsthalle Zürich, like the Migros Museum, features changing exhibitions of contemporary art, particularly conceptual works.
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Kunsthaus
After a major renovation in 2005, Zürich's Kunsthaus is looking better than ever, with its rich collection of Alberto Giacometti stick-figure sculptures, Monets, Van Goghs, Rodin sculptures and other 19th- and 20th-century art. Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler is also represented.
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Kunsthaus (Museum of Fine Arts)
Zürich's leading art gallery can easily hold its own against those of much bigger cities. In fact, temporary exhibitions at London's Tate Modern have sometimes either originated or ended up here. The permanent holding is not shabby either, with a rich collection of Alberto Giacometti's trademark stick figures, the largest number of Munch paintings outside Norway, plus Monets, Van Goghs and Rodin sculptures.
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Le Corbusier Pavilion
Many international visitors are mystified that Zürich doesn't make more of the stunning Le Corbusier Pavilion and Heidi Weber museum. Looking like a Mondrian painting set in parkland, with differently coloured square panels, glass and steel, this was the last building designed by Le Corbusier (who died in 1965).
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Le Corbusier Pavilion and Heidi Weber museum
Many international visitors are mystified that Zürich doesn't make more of the stunning Le Corbusier Pavilion and Heidi Weber museum. However, as a cash-strapped private museum its opening times are sadly limited. Looking like a Mondrian painting set in parkland, with differently coloured square panels, glass and steel, this was the last building designed by Le Corbusier (who died in 1965).
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Migros Museum
Migros Museum is one of two main museums in the converted Löwenbräu brewery, which also houses several galleries, a bookshop, a bar and a club.
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Museum of Design
Taking a very broad definition of design, this museum comes up with some wonderful exhibitions... For example, looking at how Bollywood film producers love to shoot films in Switzerland; examining dendrites - or tree-shaped structures - that are found throughout nature; or fondly presenting takeaway food packaging.
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Museum Rietberg
An unexpectedly wonderful collection of African, Oriental and ancient American art is found in the Museum Rietberg. It's set in three villas in a leafy park.
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Plakatraum
Draws on a huge archive of vintage tourism, Dada and other posters.
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Schweizerisches Landesmuseum
The Swiss Museum, set in an imitation castle, is a great big cream cake of a place; try to digest it all in one go and you could come away feeling bloated. The permanent collection gives the ultimate rundown on Swiss life and times from the prehistoric to the present. The special exhibitions are usually enticing.
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