This section contains an overview of the most relevant exhibitions in Switzerland and neighbouring regions. Each item is connected to the organizing museum.
For more than 400 years, Zurich was among the world´s most important centres of silk trade and production. The nineteenth century was the heyday of production, trade and export, to Amerika, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and China in particular. The exhibition tells this story of a forgotten industry, more relevant than watch making in the nineteenth century.
The Cabinet d´arts is exhibiting some 130 paintings, oil studies, watercolours, drawings and lithographs by painter Barthélemy Menn (1815-1893). The exhibition is structured around the landscape and the figure, their representation and their reciprocal relationship. Menn tried to deepen his understanding and then to capture the form systematically, and to organise and to give rhythm to the pictorial surface. Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of his many students.
The Foundation Pierre Gianadda presents more than 100 works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Many of them are on show in Europe for the first time.