Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich

The ethnographic museum is located in downtown Zurich within the premises of the Old Botanical Garden “zur Katz”.

Until 1977 it served as a depot, office building and green house of the Botanical Institute of the University of Zurich, the latter still recognizable in the library tract's architecture.

The complex of buildings now comprises depots, studios of photography, graphic art and conservation, archives, library, office tract, lecture hall and auditorium (which also serves as venue of public events), reception and three exhibition halls (total display space 700m2).

Thematic focus areas are material witnesses of religious context (ritual objects and iconography of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam as well as of local religions in Asia, Indonesia (asien?

), Australia, Oceania, the Americas and Africa) as well as objects embodying specific knowledge and skills relating to production and utilization (textiles, wickerwork, pottery, carving, smithery).