The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is Switzerland's leading design and visual communication museum.
The exhibition program
includes whatever is effective as "design". The main thematic areas are design, visual communication and architecture. Between five and seven temporary exhibitions annually as well as smaller presentations and interventions in and around the museum explain the way in which designed objects and images are dealt with, provide information about personalities in the field of design or about those areas of design that shape our everyday lives.
Every project that is shown in the large museum hall (1,100m2), in the gallery (300m2) or in the vestibule, makes particular demands on exhibition design. Insightful and varied presentations lend the objects a voice. They are an indication of the reflective and yet enthusiastic way in which the medium "exhibition" is handled.
The Museum Bellerive
incomparably located on Lake Zurich, is a building with a highly individual character that can be used in many different ways. Each year between two and three temporary exhibitions focuse on the specific relationship between art and design, between modern classics and recent tendencies.
Research and communication
complement each other: in the exhibition and publications, in series of lectures and seminars, tours and other events. All these activities appeal to a broad public and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich attracts over 60,000 visitors annually making it one of the most often-visited museums in Zurich.
The publications
of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich form an indispensable part of the exhibition program. Whether issued by the museum itself or in partnership with well-known publishers, they focus on classics in the history of design, pioneers in the areas of theory and practice, as well as on current themes, standards, and experiments.
Collecting and preserving form the core of all museum activity. In its visual archives the museum preserves objects of international importance: the Design Collection, the Graphics Collection, the Applied Art Collection and the Poster Collection are rich in milestones of technical and aesthetic development since the start of industrialisation.
The museum shop
offers – in addition to books – exhibition posters, postcards and design objects. Classic and contemporary design objects make welcome gifts!
