The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading museum for design and visual communication in Switzerland. The exhibition programme covers a broad spectrum of themes and monographic positions from the fields of industrial and product design, graphics, typography, photography, posters, film, furniture, fashion, jewellery, arts and crafts, architecture and scenography. With its educational programme, the museum offers visitors the opportunity to delve deeper into design. The collections on design, graphics, applied arts and posters comprise over 500,000 objects and are among the most important of their kind internationally.
Whether in everyday objects or digital media, sound is an elementary component of design. The exhibition Pling! Sound and Design shows how sounds shape our ...
until 20.09.2026
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Christoph Hefti—The Missing Cat and Other Textile Stories
Eyes, moons, and cats: The world of Swiss textile designer Christoph Hefti is surreal, colorful, and wild. The exhibition Christoph Hefti—The Missing Cat ...
until 03.01.2027
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Listening Sessions
Listening Session II: A Brief Journey Through the Avant-Garde
Electronic music, understood as music created and reproduced using electronic means, ...
13.08.2026
17:30
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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Pling! Listen to the design
Whether it’s spaces, works of art, everyday objects or digital media – sound is a fundamental part of design. The exhibition Pling! Hearing Design ...
16.08.2026
11:00
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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
In the Cosmos of Christoph Hefti
Christoph Hefti offers insights into his multifaceted body of work, which straddles the worlds of design and art. The guided tour with curator Nora ...
20.08.2026
18:30
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
A sound tour of the Toni-Areal
Sound artist Andres Bosshard leads a sound walk that brings the city to life through sound and allows hidden noises to be consciously experienced.
A walk ...
22.08.2026
14:00
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
eMuseum
eMuseum.ch is the largest Swiss online database for design and art. Browse through the nearly 110,000 objects from the collections of the Museum für ...
Permanent exhibition
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Swiss Design Lounge
Why not bide your time and discover and test outstanding Swiss design at the same time? The Swiss Design Lounge enables visitors to experience Swiss ...
Permanent exhibition
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Swiss Design Collection
The Swiss Design Collection presents around 2,500 objects from the fields of graphics, typography, poster design, textiles, product design and arts and ...
