ZAUBER BERGE
Switzerland as energy centre and sanatorium
26.03.2010 – 15.08.2010
Banks and snow-covered mountains, clean and well-lit streets, trains running on time – they all form part of Switzerland’s image, as well as healthy air and pure water, spas, mountain resorts and natural food such as Alpen milk or the famous Musli by Bircher. The exhibition dedicated to Switzerland’s reputation as a paradise of health opens up with a multivision show of historical 3-D photographs. Starting with Paracelsus’ theory of thermal waters and Albert von Haller’s «Ode to the Alps», it then leads visitors to historical key points such as the famous Monte Verita colony in Canton Ticino, the equally famous Bircher-Benner clinic in Zurich or the sanatoriums of Davos and Leysin. Hermann Haller’s sculpture «sun worship» points to the tract dedicated to health food. Did you know that the Swiss, besides inventing Ovaltine, once produced a popular herb mix called «Swiss tea»?
The richly illustrated catalogue «Zauber Berge. Die Schweiz als Kraftraum und Sanatorium» («Magic Mountains. Switzerland as energy centre and sanatorium»), published by hier+jetzt will be available from 26. March 2010 at the museum shop, in libraries or through buchbestellung@snm.admin.ch.
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