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Background

Welcome to the eMuseum!
In the eMuseum, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and the Archive of Zurich University of the Arts provide a look at their collections, which have been housed since 2014 at the Toni-Areal on Pfingstweidstrasse 96 in Zurich. The eMuseum is designed to be used for scholarly research.

What is the eMuseum?
The eMuseum is the largest Swiss online database for design and art. Interested scholars, curators, designers and collectors can search more than 100,000 works in the collections by author, title, date, category or object name and setting the desired filters, or can alternatively browse by entering keywords.

Record:
Data on objects, people and exhibitions are constantly being supplemented and expanded. Not all of the 500,000 collected items are available online in the eMuseum. For newly added data sets, see New in the eMuseum. Please register if you would like to send us comments, corrections or additions to the published data.

Categorize:
Collection Focal Points gives an overview of important holdings in the Design Collection, Graphics Collection, Applied Art Collection and Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, as well as the Archive of Zurich University of the Arts. These show the priorities set by each collection and illustrate the collecting policy.

Curate:
We regularly publish the latest topics of interest under In Focus. Under YourCollection, you, too, can curate your own virtual exhibitions and share them with others! Just register to get started!

Document:
In the Exhibition Archive you can find information on recent exhibitions at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich as well as documentation of events and projects at Zurich University of the Arts. Biographies provides profiles of important designers and artists.

Borrow:
Under Services you’ll find information on our lending conditions and image services. You can also book guided tours through the Open Collections or order poster reproductions for your own four walls.