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  • Good Friday 18.04.2025 closed

  • Easter 20.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 21.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Mother´s Day 11.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Corpus Christi 19.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Good Friday 18.04.2025 closed

  • Easter 20.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 21.04.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 01.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Mother´s Day 11.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension Day 29.05.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 08.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 09.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Corpus Christi 19.06.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Important information: Lift out of order from 17 March to 4 April 2025

Dear visitors,

due to planned maintenance, the lift in the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz will be out of order from 17 March to 4 April 2025. During this time, access to the exhibition ‘The Second Life of Things’ in the basement and the exhibition ‘Switzerland in the Making’ on the two upper floors will only be possible via the stairs.

We very much regret that people with limited mobility will not be able to visit the exhibitions during this period and ask for your understanding for this necessary measure.

If you have any questions, please contact us by phone on 041 819 60 11 or by email at forumschwyz@nationaluseum.ch

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to welcoming you again without restriction from 5 April 2025.

Best regards

Team Forum of Swiss History Schwyz

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In Jelmoli’s shadow

Rachel Huber

25. March 2025

The ‘Cheesemeyer’ in Sissach was the first department store in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Like Zurich’s Jelmoli, it was also a family business.

Der Cheesmeyer abgebildet auf einer Postkarte von 1906.

Max Weber: an eventful life in eventful times

Kurt Messmer

21. March 2025

Social justice. Max Weber spent his whole life fighting for it ‒ as a trade unionist, politician and economist. In an age of extremes he moved with the times, in his own fashion. Many of the views he expressed are still relevant today.

Max Weber (1897-1974). Ahnengalerie des Kantons Zürich. Zürcher Mitglieder des Bundesrats. Gemälde von Jakob Ritzmann (Ausschnitt).

The Erlacherhof plot

Reto Bleuer

18. March 2025

From rebellious patricians and ammunition stashed in the city hall to a wave of arrests and a controversial trial – the Erlacherhof plot of 1832 was a turning point in the history of the canton of Bern.

Im Erlacherhof wurde Munition für einen möglichen Umsturz versteckt. Illustration von Marco Heer.
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