Last year we offered a trip to Zurich the opportunity, finally, the newly designed to look at permanent exhibition of the National Museum . Like any brave Swiss schoolboy, I had the solemn halls of our national museum as a child, two-crossed three times with proper civic respect. Respect the castle demanded to Zurich train station continue, even if the new presentation is very accessible. And some impressions from my childhood visits, I was on the historic tour quite informally here and there reminded again - as in the detailed section on the Reformation, where taking the most famous relics of the house, helmet and sword of Zwingli, their proper place. Before this, very briefly, but with the finest objects of the Christian Middle Ages shows, most recently forwarded to the rise of the Swiss industry in the contemporary history. Think it's Fashion now be after the first, the chronological part of art history holdings of sculpture, painting, crafts hand over their entire mass impressive and very skilfully presented. Lack of time and energy, we could not even consider this rich abundance in detail.
had in connection with the opening of a detail of some controversy unleashed on in the right political spectrum: the simple with the (stolen ) sentence "No one was there all the time" made a declaration that many major Swiss and Swiss were originally no such. The National Museum as a propaganda spin? Room. The introductory chapter in the permanent exhibition presented only the - in this context not only justified, but obvious - question, Who were the people who lived in the area earlier today in Switzerland, and where are those who are here now. This double issue is a cause for hand gathered presentation of the early history and antiquity, on the other hand, a few observations about the present population. That a national self-image mediation institution to take this opportunity must be to correct stereotypes and introduce unknown aspects in the debate appear me obvious: it would have been possible to address the construction (and constructed nature) of the national identity nor explicit. But the part of Switzerland and the Swiss is anyway not the most political part of the exhibition. The real political statement is the detail with which the most exciting fifty years of Swiss history is staged, the new epoch between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Constitution of 1848. For me, this is the key period in Switzerland. Unbearable tensions had been discharged in the brief civil war - and then managed real patriots quietly and expeditiously under the radar of the monarchist Europe throughout the latest State of the continent. If you must be proud of a period of Swiss history will, then it is this. And you can to all those who commit to conscious or unconscious bending the historical research, the Confederation of 1291 to use for their propaganda purposes, not stress the importance of the state in 1848 enough. The National Museum deserves thanks for put this era into focus and illustrates with great gesture to have.
Technicals: The National Museum in Zurich has probably the best public transport links all Swiss museums will increase in Zurich HB from one of the many features, head to the platform and then just left out - voila. The house is open daily except Mondays from 10 am to 17 clock, even on Thursday to 19 clock.
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