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Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich

The Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich is the third oldest ethnological museum of . Owner of its collections since 1914 is the University of Zurich.
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  • Opening hours:
    Tuesday—Wednesday and Friday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Thursday: 10:00 AM—7:00 PM
    Saturday: 2:00 PM—5:00 PM
    Sunday: 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in the city of Zurich in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Voelkerkundemuseum der Universitaet Zuerich”
  • Address: Pelikanstrasse 40, Zürich, 8001
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Old Botanical Garden, Zurich and Zurich Selnau railway station.

Garden
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The Old Botanical Garden is a botanical garden and arboretum in the city of Zürich. The garden is, among the neighbored Schanzengraben moat and the bastion, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich, that was begun in 1642.

Railway station
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Zurich Selnau is an underground railway station on the Zurich S-Bahn system in Selnau in the centre of the city of , within fare zone 110 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund. is situated 260 metres northwest of Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.

Railway station
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as , is the largest railway station in and one of the busiest in . is situated 1 km northeast of Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schipfe and Altstadt.

Locality
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is a residential district in , Switzerland, located on the eastern slope of the , one of the oldest parts of the Helvetii Oppidum Zurich-Lindenhof, by the river .

Suburb
The in the city of 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.

Locality
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is a locality.

Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich

Latitude
47.37083° or 47° 22′ 15″ north
Longitude
8.53436° or 8° 32′ 4″ east
Elevation
416 metres (1,365 feet)
Levels
2
Operator
Universität Zürich
Open location code
8FVC9GCM+8P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 30924953
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
10229790
Wiki­data ID
Q2536345
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From French to Italian—“Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich” goes by many names.

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