Swiss National Museum

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The seat of the Swiss National Museum in the National Museum Zurich

The Swiss National Museum ( SNM ; French Musée national suisse , Italian Museo nazionale svizzero , Rhaeto-Romanic Museum naziunal svizzer ) is the Confederation's "roof museum" for Swiss cultural history. Its headquarters are in the National Museum Zurich , Museumstrasse 2 in 8021 Zurich.

Museums

Zunfthaus zur Meisen in Zurich
Collection center in Affoltern am Albis

The Swiss National Museum museum group includes:

  • National Museum Zurich (formerly Swiss National Museum )
  • The Château de Prangins on Lake Geneva opened in 1998. The permanent exhibition in Prangins Castle deals with economic, social and cultural developments in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • The Swiss Customs Museum “Museo doganale Cantine di Gandria ” illustrates the history of smuggling, tasks of the border authorities and methods of combating crime.
  • With the permanent exhibition The Origin of Switzerland, the “ Forum of Swiss History Schwyz ” sheds light on the origins of the Swiss Confederation between the 12th and 14th centuries from different perspectives.
  • The “ Zunfthaus zur Meisen Zürich” houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum.
  • The “collection center” in Affoltern am Albis . 820,000 objects are preserved, restored and stored here.

The permanent exhibitions in the museums show exhibits from Swiss cultural history from the beginnings to the present, which represent Swiss identity and the diversity of history and culture in Switzerland. The permanent exhibitions are supplemented by temporary exhibitions on current topics.

history

The National Museum was formed on the basis of the Federal Law on Museums and Collections of the Federal Government (Museum and Collections Law, MSG) of June 12, 2009. The law came into full force on January 1, 2010. It replaced the federal law of June 27, 1890 on the establishment of a Swiss National Museum .

Before the new federal museum policy was implemented in November 2008, three other museums belonged to the Swiss National Museum:

  • The Museum for Music Automatons in Seewen SO houses one of the world's largest and most famous collections of Swiss music boxes, record boxes, clocks and jewelry with musical mechanisms and other mechanical music automatons.
  • The Bärengasse Museum in Zurich, opened in 1976, has since been used by the city authorities as an exhibition building.
  • The Wildegg castle provides insight into the life of the lord of the manor family Effinger and their kitchen and pleasure garden. It was handed over to the canton of Aargau on January 1, 2011.

organization

Organizationally, the Swiss National Museum is subordinate to the Federal Department of Home Affairs . It is chaired by the Museum Council, which consists of seven to nine expert members. The Federal Council elects the President and the other members of the Museum Council. The language groups should be adequately represented in the committee, the term of office is four years. The Museum Council elects a director to act as management. The SNM employs 133 people. An expense of 28,400,000 Swiss francs is offset by a financial return of 4,300,000 Swiss francs. The office of President of the Museum Council is currently held by the former diplomat and politician Tim Guldimann . The director of the SNM is Andreas Spillmann (as of July 2020). The seat is in the National Museum Zurich.

Web links

Commons : Swiss National Museum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss National Museum. In: Website of the Federal Department of Home Affairs , accessed on January 10, 2018.
  2. ^ Federal law on museums and collections. In: Federal Administration website.
  3. ^ Green light for the private museum "MoneyWorld". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 9, 2010.
  4. ↑ Museum Bärengasse. In use since autumn 2015. In: Website of the City of Zurich.
  5. ↑ Matthias Saxer: The federal government wants to sell the Wildegg Castle. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. April 18, 2009, accessed January 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ About us. Organization. Museum Council. Website of the Swiss National Museum.
  7. ↑ Swiss National Museum. In: Website of the Swiss National Museum.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '44.5 "  N , 8 ° 32' 27.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-three thousand two hundred and forty-eight  /  248161