accessibility.sr-only.opening-hours-term

Today

openinghours.openfromto.long

Opening times

Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Mother´s Day 12.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Corpus Christi 30.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

accessibility.openinghours.special_opening_hours.link

Show all

Today

openinghours.openfromto.long

Opening times

Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Mother´s Day 12.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Corpus Christi 30.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

accessibility.openinghours.special_opening_hours.link

Show all
Accessibility
Tickets
Accessibility
Tickets
accessibility.logo.svg.title Forum of Swiss History Schwyz
Open tomorrow from 10:00
Accessibility
Tickets
Tickets

accessibility.sr-only.body-term

Plan your visit
What?
When?
Pick a range
Plan your visit

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Child labour
accessibility.time_to

Exhibition

Switzerland in the Making
Permanent exhibition
Calendar
Hands embrace iPod

Audioguide-App

Explore the exhibition «Switzerland in the Making» on your smartphone with the free app «Forum Schwyz».

Download now

Current blog posts

Knocked off his pedestal

Peter Egloff

18. April 2024

In the last-but-one series of Swiss banknotes, the thousand-franc note depicted Auguste Forel as a wise researcher turning his alert gaze on the world, as an icon of science and Helvetic national symbol. But this stylised heroic image failed to stand up to closer investigation. A story illustrating the pitfalls of the culture of commemoration.

Auguste Forel depicted on the thousand-franc note (front) that came into circulation in 1978.

Swiss on the Titanic

James Blake Wiener

15. April 2024

Over a century after her dramatic demise, the Titanic lingers omnipresent in the human imagination. The stories of the Titanic’s Swiss staff and passengers are a rich kaleidoscope of a maritime disaster and an era on the precipice of tremendous change.

The Titanic leaving the harbor in Southampton.

Putting the bins out – the Ochsner way

Thomas Weibel

11. April 2024

For generations, the clanking sound of bins being emptied was an everyday morning sound in Switzerland. The noise came from the hot-dip galvanised steel rubbish bins designed by resourceful Zurich entrepreneur Jakob Ochsner.

Ochsner bin in the city of Basel, 1930s.
All blog posts

Stay up to date

Newsletter

Icon E-mail

Each month, we report on new exhibitions and our latest events.

Subscribe now

Social Media

Our social media channels inform you about exhibitions and attractions on offer to the public, and provides an insight into the Museum’s multi-faceted work. 

Subscribe free of charge