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 01.12.19 − Mon 01.06.20

New “Feathers – warmth, seduction, flight” 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 01.12.19 – Mon 01.06.20

Feathers – warmth, seduction, flight

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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Forthcoming exhibitions

Anna Rubin – Built in the air

Sun 01.03.20 – Sun 16.08.20

Anna Rubin is fascinated by flight and builds flying objects of all shapes and sizes. In her new installation “Built in the air”, she unites handicrafts with material, tradition with knowledge, technical expertise with art, and freedom with wind.

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U-Joints – the art of connecting things

Fri 03.07.20 – Sun 01.11.20

In every type of creative endeavour from handicrafts to high-tech engineering, parts need to be joined together. Each of these joints exhibits elegant simplicity, a large helping of practical intelligence or even a stroke of genius.

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Hella Jongerius – Breathing Colour

Sun 29.11.20 – Mon 24.05.21

The designer Hella Jongerius uses colour, material, light and shadow to create an almost endless series of colour effects, giving colours the scope to reveal themselves anew in ways which go far beyond the standard colour systems.

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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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Kulturnacht Winterthur, Saturday 28 September 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 “Feathers – warmth, seduction, flight” exhibition

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