Zurich Culture and Sights

A symbolic emblem of the city, where the Reformer Zwingli once started the religious revolution. A legend has grown up around the symbol of Zurich, saying that the city's saints Felix und Regula, follo...

Young, innovative, modern, successful. Together with the Museum for Contemporary Art and other galleries, the Kunsthalle is situated in the former Löwenbräu brewery. The locality alone is worth a visit...

Museum housing an impressive collection of non-European art, particularly from India, China and Africa. Wesendonck Villa can be found at the northern end of Rieterpark. Baron Eduard von der Heydt bequ...

A cultural temple in a former factory hall in district 5 (Zürich-West), the trendiest district in the city. The high glass windows realised by Marc Chagall in 1970 and the rosette which he created in 1...

Along with the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, a museum for contemporary art and the art gallery Kunsthalle Zürich, you'll find another four private galleries accommodated in the same building.

A delightful complex on the Zürichberg mountain with a genuine original replica of a rainforest. Over 2,000 animals live in the zoo on Zürichberg, opened in 1929. Fauna ranges from penguins from Antarc...

Around 25.000 exhibits can be found in the world's largest collection of cactuses and related plants. Here there are 25,000 succulent, i.e. sap-storing plants from all over the world. Cactuses, agaves,...

Today's vast collection ranging from the old masters through to modern artists began back in 1909. Devoted primarily to works from the 19th and 20th centuries, this renowned collection hosts works by M...

The interesting cultural history of coffee. The head of the group himself donated his private collection, to found a museum, which documents the contribution of coffee to the European cultural history.