Swiss National Museum
The Swiss National Museum is a museum in Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, adjacent to Central Station and the Platzspitz park. It is part of the Musée Suisse Group, which is itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Landesmuseum”, “National Museum Zurich”, and “Swiss National Museum Zurich”
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Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gre regiment, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Zurich Main Station and Platzspitz park.
Zurich Main Station
Railway station
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as Zurich Main Station, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe. Zurich Main Station is situated 130 metres south of Swiss National Museum.
Platzspitz park
Park
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Platzspitz, officially Platzpromenade, is a park in District 1 of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It is located next to the Swiss National Museum and Central Station and bound by the rivers Sihl to the west and Limmat to the east. Platzspitz park is situated 180 metres north of Swiss National Museum.
Zurich HB SZU railway station
Railway station
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Zurich HB SZU railway station is a subsurface railway station situated below Bahnhofplatz in the city centre of Zurich, Switzerland. The station is physically connected to Zürich HB, Zurich Main Station, via the underground ShopVille mall. Zurich HB SZU railway station is situated 200 metres south of Swiss National Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schipfe and Niederdorf.
Schipfe
Locality
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Schipfe is a residential district in Zurich, Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the Lindenhof, one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zurich-Lindenhof, by the river Limmat.
Altstadt
Suburb
The Altstadt in the Swiss city of Zurich encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934.
Swiss National Museum
- Categories: military museum, national museum, history museum, memory institution, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Zurich, Zürich District, Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Swiss National Museum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Landesmuseum Zürich”
- Afrikaans: “Switserse Nasionale Museum”
- Armenian: “Շվեյցարական ազգային թանգարան”
- Basque: “Züricheko Museo Nazionala”
- Catalan: “Landesmuseum”
- Catalan: “Museu Nacional de Zúric”
- Chinese: “瑞士国家博物馆”
- Chinese: “瑞士國家博物館”
- Chinese: “瑞士國立博物館”
- Czech: “Švýcarské národní muzeum”
- Dutch: “Landesmuseum Zürich”
- Dutch: “Swiss National Museum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المتحف الوطنى زيورخ”
- Esperanto: “Svisa nacia muzeo”
- French: “Landesmuseum”
- French: “Musee national suisse Zurich”
- French: “Musée national suisse”
- French: “Musée national Zurich”
- German: “Landesmuseum Zürich”
- German: “Landesmuseum”
- German: “Musee Suisse Group”
- German: “Musée Suisse Gruppe”
- German: “Nationalmuseum”
- German: “Schweizerisches Landesmuseum”
- Greek: “Ελβετικό Εθνικό Μουσείο”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון הלאומי של שוויצריה”
- Hungarian: “Svájci Nemzeti Múzeum”
- Hungarian: “Zürichi Múzeum”
- Indonesian: “Museum Nasional Swiss”
- Italian: “Landesmuseum”
- Italian: “Museo nazionale di Zurigo”
- Italian: “Museo nazionale svizzero”
- Italian: “Museo nazionale Zurigo”
- Japanese: “スイス国立博物館”
- Japanese: “国立博物館チューリッヒ”
- Korean: “스위스 국립박물관”
- Persian: “موزه ملی سوئیس”
- Portuguese: “MNS”
- Portuguese: “Museu Nacional Suíço”
- Russian: “Швейцарский национальный музей Цюрих”
- Russian: “Швейцарский национальный музей”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Zurich”
- Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Zúrich”
- Swiss German: “Landesmuseum Züri”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์แห่งชาติสวิส”
- Tosk Albanian: “Landesmuseum Zürich”
- Ukrainian: “Швейцарський національний музей”
- Western Panjabi: “سوئس نیشنل میوزیم”
- “Landesmuseum Zürich”
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