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

Sun 01.12.18 − Sun 28.04.19

New “Ernst Gamperl – Dialogue with wood” exhibition

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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 26.05.19 – Sun 03.11.19

Ernst Gamperl – Dialogue with wood

Wood is the great passion of the internationally renowned German artist and wood turner Ernst Gamperl. As an artist in wood who often works at the very limit of what is technically feasible, he creates large-scale sculptures.

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Coal, coke and pitch

Sun 31.03.19 – Sun 15.09.19

In conjunction with the MATERIAL ARCHIV, the special exhibition provides key information about these common yet astonishing materials, recounts their history and explores coal’s potential for creative uses.

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Forthcoming exhibitions

Feathers – warmth, seduction, flight

Sun 01.12.19 – Mon 01.06.20

The “Feathers” exhibition pays homage to this extremely complex keratinous structure, exploring its seductive beauty and multiplicity of shapes. Light is shed on the ingenious versatility of feathers, their use as cultural objects and ...

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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.

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Ernst Gamperl installing the exhibition at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, spring 2019

Video of construction of the “Rock Print Pavilion” on Kirchplatz square in front of the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, September 2018, opening Thursday, 4 October 2018

Picture series with impressions of the opening of the “Ernst Gamperl - Dialogue with wood” exhibition

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