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10:00 - 14:00

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  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Christmas Eve Today 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2024 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2024 10:00 - 14:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2025 closed

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Epiphany 06.01.2025 closed

  • Carnival Thursday 27.02.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Carnival Monday 03.03.2025 closed

  • Shrove Tuesday 04.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Joseph 19.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 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

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Today

10:00 - 14:00

Opening times

Museum

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

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Christmas Eve Today 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2024 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2024 10:00 - 14:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2025 closed

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Epiphany 06.01.2025 closed

  • Carnival Thursday 27.02.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Carnival Monday 03.03.2025 closed

  • Shrove Tuesday 04.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Joseph 19.03.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 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

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Das zweite Leben der Dinge

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Rundgang ohne Eile und Hektik durch die Ausstellung «Das zweite Leben der Dinge».

  • Eintritt und Führung für die Generation 60+ kostenlos
  • Die Anzahl Teilnehmende ist beschränkt – online Reservationen haben Vorrang.

Forum Schweizer Geschichte Schwyz

Zeughausstrasse 5
6430 Schwyz

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The exhibition

Our throw-away and consumerist society is a recent phenomenon in the history of humanity. The way people handled materials and objects used to be driven by scarcity and shortages. Up until the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, it was normal to hand down clothes, repair tools, reuse building materials, melt down bronze objects to make new ones, and recycle glass containers. Whether they were made from fabric, metal, stone or glass – it was possible for all manner of things to have a second, third, or even infinite life. The exhibition takes a look at the methods of the circular economy past and present. Objects from the Stone Age to the present day show how their history can raise awareness of the value of things.

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