Art and culture play a key role in Zurich. The city already showed itself to be avant-garde as early as the Middle Ages, as a major center for silk production and as the birthplace of the Dada art movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Nowadays, countless museums and cultural institutions such as the Museum of Design, the Kunsthaus Zurich or Rockefeller’s Dining Room at Haus Konstruktiv invite visitors on fascinating tours of discovery, while art in public places such as Niki de Saint Phalle’s “nana” in Zurich’s main train station and numerous festivals testify to Zurich’s multifaceted cultural offerings.
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