The exhibition opens with a playful sculpture, a medley of Zurich’s sights and a series of tongue-in-cheek, ultra short films featuring the city’s municipalities. The second room is a treasure chamber of sorts, displaying a wealth of museum-worthy and everyday objects against a backdrop of possible narratives. The third and final room presents a filmic installation that explores and reenvisions significant sites and landscapes in Zurich.

Alongside the exhibition, the project Einfach Zürich (Simply Zurich) creates and cultivates a network of multilayered relationships with cultural history institutions right across the canton. This network manifests itself in an extensive public programme, which also has an impact on the presentation at the Landesmuseum: the three exhibition rooms provide numerous possibilities for the exhibition to grow and evolve.

This is a beginning – it’s not an end.

An immersion in Zurich's history is now possible in the permanent exhibition Simply Zurich in the Landesmuseum. The focus is on the "treasure chamber", in which the history of Zurich since the Middle Ages can be explored using seventy objects. The Education & Outreach team at the Landesmuseum offers various formats for this purpose. → To the offer

Introductory materials are available to schools for independent visits to Einfach Zürich's "treasure trove." The material is aimed at different levels and is available for download.