Katrin Brunner, Autor bei Swiss National Museum

12. August 2020

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Message in a bottle from the Katzensee

For decades, the Katzensee near Zurich was used as a dumping ground for glass. A look into bottles from days gone by.

29. May 2020

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The dream of flying

The great names in global history weren’t the only ones who dreamed of flying. Even in the Zürcher Unterland, people were designing and building. Lack of money and scarce resources gave rise to some exceedingly creative aircraft.

15. May 2020

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A treasure trove in a quarry

It’s one of nine quarry sites in the Canton of Zurich, and certainly the most eccentric. The silica sand quarry at Buchs in Zurich was created by chance in 1898, and hit the headlines in April 1910.