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  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

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  • Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Mother´s Day 11.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Corpus Christi 19.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Mother´s Day 11.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Corpus Christi 19.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Collection Ceramics & glass

Ceramic vessels and figurines

The collection includes medieval ceramic vessels as well as objects made and used in Switzerland between the 18th century and the present, such as vessels, crockery, figures, sculptures and reliefs. There is a focus on figures manufactured by the Zurich Porcelain Factory. 

Glass

  • © Zunftglas Zimmerleuten. Christof Oeri, 1632. Hall. Um 1580.

The Glass collection comprises mainly glass containers, drinking glasses, bottles and tableware, and some unique glass objects, dating from the Late Middle Ages to the present day. A major focus of collecting activities is the expansion of the collection to include more glassware from the 20th and 21st centuries.

accessibility.sr-only.person_card_info PhD Christine Keller Lüthi

Curator, Hallwil Collection, Manuscripts, Glass, Mediaeval Ceramics, Murals, Editor of ZAK

National Museum Zurich
Cultural History 3 +41 44 218 65 46 christine.keller@nationalmuseum.ch

Stove ceramics

Reference collection for stove ceramics produced in Switzerland. Of particular interest are the stoves that are preserved in their entirety. Highlights are the medieval Swiss stove ceramics, the Winterthur stove ceramics dating from the 16th/17th century, and the 18th-century Zurich stove ceramics.

accessibility.sr-only.person_card_info PhD Christine Keller Lüthi

Curator, Hallwil Collection, Manuscripts, Glass, Mediaeval Ceramics, Murals, Editor of ZAK

National Museum Zurich
Cultural History 3 +41 44 218 65 46 christine.keller@nationalmuseum.ch

Architectural ceramics

Unique collection of bricks decorated with reliefs, from the brickworks of the St Urban Cistercian monastery and other monasteries. Reference collection for medieval Europe.

accessibility.sr-only.person_card_info PhD Christine Keller Lüthi

Curator, Hallwil Collection, Manuscripts, Glass, Mediaeval Ceramics, Murals, Editor of ZAK

National Museum Zurich
Cultural History 3 +41 44 218 65 46 christine.keller@nationalmuseum.ch