In the historic heart of Winterthur, the Gewerbemuseum mounts exhibitions which explore the points at which design, art and everyday life intersect. The museum shows the familiar in unfamiliar ways, asks pertinent questions, provides startling, multisensory insights into current topics and offers easy access to the world of materials.

Spotlight

Thu, 04.10.18, 6:30 p.m.

Opening of new special presentation “Rock Print Pavilion. A robot builds for people”. With introduction and presentation.

Exhibition

In the historic heart of Winterthur, the Gewerbemuseum mounts exhibitions which explore the points at which design, art and everyday life intersect. The museum shows the familiar in unfamiliar ways, asks pertinent questions, provides startling, multisensory insights into current topics and offers easy access to the world of materials.

Current exhibitions

Sun 27.05.18 – Sun 04.11.18

Hello, Robot.

Design between Human and Machine: Whether in the form of delivery drones, smart sensors or Industry 4.0, in recent years robotics has found its way into our everyday lives, changing them in fundamental ways.

Exhibition

Built by robots

Sun 27.05.18 – Sun 28.10.18

How are complex clinker brick façades created using a digital process that relies on robot technology throughout? A special presentation accompanying the MATERIAL ARCHIV and the “Hello, Robot.” exhibition provides an insight.

Exhibition

Times of Waste − the residue

Fri 21.09.18 – Sun 17.03.19

“Times of Waste” follows a smartphone and its component parts as they are shipped and recycled, encountering landfill sites and shredders, repair shops, research laboratories and a variety of materials and people along the way.

Exhibition

Rock Print Pavilion

Thu 04.10.18 – Sun 04.11.18

A robot builds for people: Gramazio Kohler Research from ETH Zurich demonstrates the transformative power of digital construction processes by creating a pavilion out of a heap of loose aggregates tied up with twine by a robot.

Exhibition

Forthcoming exhibitions

Food Revolution 5.0

Sun 02.12.18 – Sun 28.04.19

What will the future of human nutrition look like? Will we be growing vegetables in indoor farms or feasting on algae proteins and mealworms? International designers present concepts and visions for designing the global nutrition system.

Exhibition

MATERIAL ARCHIV

Fotos: Michael Lio

Please feel free to touch! From glass, metal, wood, paper, plastic and stone to ceramics, colour pigments, textiles and leather – the permanent MATERIAL ARCHIV exhibition is an interactive laboratory for studying materials. It is like a vast, three-dimensional textbook with an online database, some 1,000 specimen materials, experiment tables, video and audio stations and a library, all offering an in-depth yet enjoyable way of finding out about the world of materials. The MATERIAL ARCHIV is thus a fun learning opportunity, as well as a place where interested members of the public, specialists and students of all ages can carry out research and make discoveries.

Permanent exhibition

Grand Café du Musée

Culinary delights & tempting treats

Museum shop

Postcards, souvenirs & gifts

Uhrenmuseum Winterthur

A voyage through six centuries

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