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Horarios especiales

  • 23.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2024 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2024 10:00 - 19:00

  • 27.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • 28.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

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  • 30.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2025 10:00 - 19:00

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Horarios de apertura

Museo, tienda y cafetería

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

  • openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long

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

  • openinghours.days.long.monday Cerrado

Biblioteca

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.wednesday openinghours.and openinghours.days.long.friday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.saturday Open till openinghours.days.long.monday Cerrado

Closed on public holidays.

Horarios especiales

  • 23.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2024 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2024 10:00 - 19:00

  • 27.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • 28.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • 30.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2024 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2025 10:00 - 19:00

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Guided tour with an expert

Utopische Körper auf den Bildwerken des Spätmittelalters

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with Prof. Dr. Valentin Groebner, Historiker, Universität Luzern

Rundgang in der Ausstellung «begehrt. umsorgt. gemartert. Körper im Mittelalter».

Landesmuseum Zürich

Museumstrasse 2
8021 Zürich

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Prof. Dr. Valentin Groebner

Valentin Groebner, geboren in Wien, lehrt seit 2004 als Professor für Geschichte des Mittelalters an der Universität Luzern. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher, unter anderem von Das Mittelalter hört nicht auf. Über historisches Erzählen (München 2008), Wer redet von der Reinheit? (Wien 2019) und zuletzt Zeitverschluss. Das Museum als Panikraum (Berlin 2023).

The exhibition

Every era and society cultivates its own image of the human body. In the Middle Ages, the physical form was something of a cause célèbre. The all-powerful church considered bodily desire sinful, while worshipping the martyred bodies of Jesus and the saints. Meanwhile, in the secular world, aristocrats nurtured their appearance with cosmetic products and by doing sport – while the common people suffered from disease and demanding physical labour. Ultimately, death loomed in everyone’s future as it was omnipresent during the Middle Ages. Dead bodies were cared for and honoured in the hope of resurrection. The exhibition includes many items on loan from within and outside Switzerland and looks back on the human body in the Middle Ages from a cultural history perspective, thereby also raising some questions about how we perceive the human body today.

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