Winterthur Attractions
Winterthur, the second largest town in the canton of Zurich, lies in a wide basin near the river Töss in the pre-Alpine region, half-way between the Rhine and Lake Zurich.
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Art Gallery (Natural History Museum)
The Winterthur Museum of Art showcases the works of 16th to 20th C Swiss painters, as well as French Impressionists.
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Oskar Reinhart Bequest Museum
The Oskar Reinhart Bequest Museum displays works by well known Swiss, German, and Austrian artists.
Oskar Reinhart Collection
To the north of Winterthur at Haldenstrasse 95 in Römerholz is the celebrated private collection of the great art patron Oskar Reinhart. It includes works by a large number of old masters, including Cranach the Elder, Breugel the Elder, Grünewald, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco and Goya, and paintings by 19th C. French artists, including Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Delacroix, Renoir and Cézanne.
Hours
January 1 to December 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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| Open | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
Facilities
Restaurant or food service
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Technorama
This unique museum deals with a variety of topics in the fields of technology and science.
City Festival
This annual three-day festival takes place during the last weekend in late June or early July in honor of Saint Alban. The festival was first held in the 13th century but did not become an annual event until the early 1970s.
Food and craft stalls, concerts, dance performances and other traditional events are held throughout the weekend.
Food and craft stalls, concerts, dance performances and other traditional events are held throughout the weekend.
Concert hall
At the east end of the Stadthausstrasse in Winterthur stands the Stadthaus, a prestigious building of 1865-1869, built by Gottfried Semper and enlarged 1932-34; inside is the concert hall of the Collegium Musicum (1629); the hall extends over three stories.
Industrial Museum
The Winterthur industrial museum houses a fine collection of applied and decorative art and occasionally special exhibitions.
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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| Open | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 20:00 |
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
May Day / Labor Day (May 1)
Swiss National Day (August 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
May Day / Labor Day (May 1)
Swiss National Day (August 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Kellenberger watch (clock collection)
In a rear wing (No. 20) of the Winterthur Rathaus can be seen the Kellenberger Collection of Watches and Clocks (sundials, sand and oil timepieces and especially mechanical clocks of 16th-19th C. In the same building is the Jakob Brimer Collection of paintings by minor Dutch masters of the 17th C., together with miniatures by English, French, German and Swiss artists of the 16th to the 19th century.
Uhrensammlung Kellenberger
Rathaus
Marktgasse 20
CH-8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
Rathaus
Marktgasse 20
CH-8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 20:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
Facilities
Gift shop
Lindengut Historical Museum
This country house c 1787 contains Roman artifacts and a model of the city during Roman rule.
As the original owner of the house, Johann Sebastian von Clais, knew the inventor Benjamin Franklin, the house is said to have possessed the first lightning conductor in Switzerland
As the original owner of the house, Johann Sebastian von Clais, knew the inventor Benjamin Franklin, the house is said to have possessed the first lightning conductor in Switzerland
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | Closed | 14:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
Facilities
Gift shop
Oberwinterthur
The Frauenfeld road (N 1) leads to the Winterthur suburb of Oberwinterthur (445 m/ 1,450ft), on the site of the Celto-Roman settlement of Vitodurum. The 14th C. wall-painting in the Romanesque church (12th C.) is interesting.
Photography Museum
An international modern photo exhibition with changing displays.
Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Closed | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 11:00 | 11:00 |
| Close | 18:00 | 19:30 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
Always closed on:
Swiss National Day (August 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Good Friday - Christian (Apr 06)
Easter - Christian (Apr 08)
Pentecost Monday (Whit Monday) - Christian (May 28)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Good Friday - Christian (Apr 06)
Easter - Christian (Apr 08)
Pentecost Monday (Whit Monday) - Christian (May 28)
Schloss Wülflingen
Decorative painting and carving can be seen in the rooms of Schloss Wülflingen (Wülflingerstrasse 214) which is now a restaurant. Ch. Kuhn painted the panels in the law court; the Salomon-Langholt Room has 17th C. decoration; the "Rose Room" is Roccoco style. In almost all the rooms can be seen examples of stoves decorated in the Winterthur style.
Hours
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| Open | Closed | ||||||
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Facilities
Restaurant or food service
Town Church
The town church of Winterthur, a three-aisled basilica, was built 1264-1615; its two 65 m/213ft high towers were added in 1659 and 1794.
Town Hall
In the Winterthur Marktgasse stands the Early-Classical town hall (18th-19th C.); in its assembly hall can be seen a magnificent stucco ceiling by Lorenz Schmid. On the ground floor, Josef Bösch created a shopping arcade in Italianate style at the end of the 19th C. and this links the Marktgasse with the Stadthausstrasse.
Winterthur Theater
Not far from the Winterthur town park can be seen the theater (Theater am Stadtgarten), opened in 1965. The building, in echelon form, was designed by Frank Krayenbühl.
Winterthur Surroundings
Elgg - Local Museum, Switzerland
The Local Museum in Elgg is housed in a mill and blacksmith's shop with equipment related to the by-gone trades of the area.
Eschenberg
To the south of Winterthur rises the wooded Eschenberg (585 m/1,919ft) with a lookout tower and the "Bruederhus" game park. An instruction trail explains the origins of the district.
Hegi Castle
A notable moated mansion dating from the 15th-18th C. Since 1947 the estate has been owned by the town of Winterthur; in addition to a collection illustrative of the history of rural and urban life of eastern Switzerland, there is also a youth hostel.
Schloss Hegi
Hegifeldstrasse 125
CH-8409 Winterthur
Switzerland
Hegifeldstrasse 125
CH-8409 Winterthur
Switzerland
Hours
March 1 to October 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 | 14:00 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
Facilities
On-site accomodations
Kyburg (castle, historical museum)
The castle, first mentioned in the 11th C, was restored in 1925 and houses the Kyberg Museum. The castle has a fine view from the keep.
800 years of public and private life lives on the Kyburg Museum which houses displays of knights of the Middle Ages plus a torture chamber.
800 years of public and private life lives on the Kyburg Museum which houses displays of knights of the Middle Ages plus a torture chamber.
Hours
February 1 to March 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 |
| Close | 16:30 | 16:30 | 16:30 | 16:30 | 16:30 | 16:30 | 16:30 |
April 1 to October 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 | 10:30 |
| Close | 17:30 | 17:30 | 17:30 | 17:30 | 17:30 | 17:30 | 17:30 |
Always opened on:
January 2nd Holiday - Switzerland (January 2)
Swiss National Day (August 1)
Easter Monday - Christian (Apr 09)
Good Friday - Christian (Apr 06)
Easter - Christian (Apr 08)
Swiss National Day (August 1)
Easter Monday - Christian (Apr 09)
Good Friday - Christian (Apr 06)
Easter - Christian (Apr 08)
Facilities
Gift shop
Morsburg Castle
Mörsburg Castle contains a Romanesque chapel (1250) and a museum of the Historical and Antiquarian Society of Winterthur (weapons, ceramics and a knights' hall).
Hours
March 1 to October 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 |
| Open | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
November 1 to February 28
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| Close | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 | 12:00 |
| Open | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 | 13:30 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
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