Berner Design Stiftung
Morillonstrasse 87, 3007 Bern
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://www.bernerdesignstiftung.ch/
The Bernese Design Foundation promotes, communicates and collects. With its wide range of activities and offers in the field of design, the foundation is a unique institution in Switzerland. Twice a year, it awards grants to professional designers from the Canton of Bern and showcases their projects in its annual BESTFORM exhibition. Through this exhibition, studio visits and other events, as well. It also maintains and expands the cantonal collection of applied art, which dates back over 150 years.
Photo: Lea Moser
Museum des Landes Glarus
Freulerpalast, 8752 Näfels
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://www.freulerpalast.ch
The Museum des Landes Glarus, which has existed since 1946, is dedicated to various aspects of the history and culture of the canton of Glarus, in permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is Switzerland’s leading museum of design and visual communication. Its collection brings together over half a million objects from the history of graphic design and is of international significance. As part of Zurich University of the Arts, the museum is engaged in research, teaching, and outreach, and regularly publishes its own works. Through its three locations in Zurich—on Ausstellungsstrasse, at the Toni-Areal campus, and in the Le Corbusier Pavilion—as well as through its traveling exhibitions and digital presence, the museum reaches a broad, international audience.
Caption: Swiss Design Collection exhibition, starting April 11, 2025, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal,
Photo: Umberto Romito & Ivan Šuta, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich/ZHdK
IWC Uhrenmuseum
Baumgartenstrasse 15, 8201 Schaffhausen
Website: https://www.iwc.com
Die renommierte Schweizer Uhrenmarke, wurde 1868 vom Amerikaner Florentine Ariosto Jones gegründet. Eng mit dem Standort Schaffhausen verbunden, befinden sich dort Produktion, Entwicklung und das firmeneigene Uhrenmuseum.
Für Designer und Historiker bietet IWC eine faszinierende Perspektive: die untrennbare Verbindung von Ingenieurskunst und klarem, wegweisendem Design, die seit über 150 Jahren unsere Kernkompetenz bildet. Unsere Designphilosophie ist integraler Bestandteil unserer Identität und Unternehmensgeschichte.
Ikonische Kollektionen wie Fliegeruhren, Portugieser, Portofino und Ingenieur sind lebendige Beispiele dieser einzigartigen Formel. Jede erzählt eine Designgeschichte von Innovation, Funktionalität und unverwechselbarer Ästhetik, die technische Entwicklungen und kulturelle Strömungen widerspiegelt.
Ein engagiertes In-house Design Team prägt das Erscheinungsbild der gesamten Marke. Es ist der reichen Designtradition verpflichtet, bewahrt die Essenz von IWC und setzt gleichzeitig zukunftsweisende Akzente. Alle aktuellen Uhrenkollektionen bauen auf historischen Modellen auf, wobei Designinspiration kontinuierlich aus der Markenhistorie geschöpft wird. Dies schlägt eine Brücke zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart und sichert die einzigartige Designkompetenz von IWC.
Interne Teams aus Designern, Uhrmachern und Ingenieuren arbeiten täglich an der Zukunft der Marke, um Relevanz und höchste Ansprüche an Design, Technik und Ästhetik zu gewährleisten.
Therma Schaulager
Sernftalstrasse 34, 8762 Schwanden
Website: https://www.therma-schaulager.ch/
The Therma Schaulager exhibition hall, built in 1932 in the former Therma enamel factory, displays a cross-section of 300 selected Therma brand electrical household appliances from the period between 1907 and 1978.
The exhibition provides an insight into Therma's wide range of products and thus into the electrification of households in the 20th century. It conveys an important piece of Swiss technological, design, graphic, economic, and social history. The product groups on display include: cookers and rechauds, water, tea, and coffee makers, heating stoves, heating pads, travel appliances, refrigerators, irons, toasters, and much more.
Opening hours and location map:
https://www.therma-schaulager.ch/schaulager
Trends & Identity, Department Design
Zurich University of the Arts
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://trendsandidentity.zhdk.ch
Trends & Identity analyzes trends, surveys identities and reflects on lifestyles as well as digital and material cultures. The department trains designers who critically and passionately shape social change. The theoretical examination of design history and cultural studies and sociological theories is just as much a part of the course of studies as the application of ethnographic methods.
Field of activity, interests: Design, Trend Research, Ethnography