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Interview: Swiss Colonialism Exhibition
The National Museum Zurich recently opened a comprehensive and multi perspectival exhibition on Switzerland’s colonial past: Colonial – Switzerland’s Global Entanglements. Based on the latest, original research and drawing on biographies...
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Castles of Bellinzona
The Castles of Bellinzona are a set of three medieval fortifications located in and surrounding the city of Bellinzona, which is located in Canton Ticino, Switzerland. These castles are the only remaining examples in the Alpine region of...
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Swiss Colonial Entanglements Exhibition Space
View of the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibiton at the National Museum Zurich from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025.
Copyright: Swiss National Museum. Used with permission (Press release).
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Swiss Colonial Human Trafficking
Figurines depicting the sale of an enslaved person. Menschenhandel, manufactory Kilchberg-Schooren, around 1775, painted porcelain. On display at the National Museum Zurich in the Swiss Global Entanglements exhibition from 13.9.2024 - 19.1.2025...
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Swiss Colonial Science
Swiss colonial science. Fritz and Paul Sarasin were scientists who travelled to British controlled Ceylon and Dutch ruled Celebes during the last decades of the 19th century. The elephant slain here had a calf that was shipped to Basel Zoo...
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Storming of the Tuileries Palace
The Storming of the Tuileries Palace, also commonly known as the Insurrection of 10 August, was a defining moment in the French Revolution (1789-99) that saw the armed revolutionaries of Paris invade the residence of King Louis XVI of France...
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Baroque, Age of Contrasts, Swiss National Museum
A photograph showing part of the exhibition space of the 2022-23 exhibition Baroque, Age of Contrasts in the Swiss National Museum, Zürich.
©Swiss National Museum (used with permission)
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Swiss Guards Defend the Tuileries
Swiss Guards defend the staircase of the Tuileries Palace from rebel National Guards, during the Insurrection of 10 August 1792, part of the French Revolution. Painting by Henri-Paul Motte, 1892.
National Library of France.
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Swiss Anabaptist
Swiss Anabaptist, engraving by Gatine after Lante, c. 1820.
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Swiss Zweihander
Zweihander sword made in Lucerne, Switzerland. This blade was used by the guard of an official during parades and ceremonial occasions. Dated 1617 CE. Steel blade with ornately etched designs and lettering. Hilt of iron, wood, and leather...
