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Must See
                           5 "'-=
                           Kunst Museum        col lection here has German,
                           Winterthur          Austrian and Swiss Romantic
                                               and Realist works from the late
                           ⌂ Beim Stadthaus:
                           Museumstrasse 52;   18th to the early 20th centuries.
                           Reinhart am Stadtgarten:
                           Stadthausstrasse 6
                           # 10am–5pm Tue–Sun   6 "'-=
                           (Beim Stadthaus to    Sammlung Oskar
                           8pm Tue, Reinhart am   Reinhart am
                           Stadtgarten to 8pm Thu)     Römerholz
                           ∑ kmw.ch
                                               ⌂ Haldenstrasse 95
                           In 2017, the Kunstmuseum   # 10am–5pm Tue–Sun (to
                           and Museum Oskar Reinhart   8pm Wed)   ∑ roemerholz.ch
                           merged to form the Kunst
                           Museum Winterthur, with     From 1926 until his death, the
                           two main locations in town.   art collector Oskar Reinhart
          Tubular undulation     The Kunst Museum Beim   lived in this lovely country
          hanging above the   Stadthaus has an excellent   villa. It holds about 200 works
          foyer of Technorama  collection of 19th­ and 20th­  from his extensive col lection.
                           century works by a range of   Reinhart juxta posed various
                           artists, including Monet, Van   styles, hanging Goya with
                           Gogh, Picasso, Rodin, Miró and  Renoir, in an effort to estab­
       4 "\                Mondrian. The building also   lish continuities across time
       Technorama          houses the Naturmuseum (a   and to reveal the quintes­
                           natural history museum) and   sence of art.
       ⌂ Technoramastrasse 1     the Kindermuseum.
       # 10am–5pm daily
       ∑ technorama.ch       Across Museumstrasse
                           stands the Classical­style
       Featuring more than 500   building of the Kunst Museum   Did You Know?
       fascinating interactive exhib­  Reinhart am Stadtgarten.
       its, Switzerland’s only science   Oskar Reinhart (1885–1965),    The name of the town
       and technology museum is    who was born in Winterthur,   is thought to be a
       a family­friendly affair, with   amassed one of the greatest   compound of the Celtic
       indoor picnic rooms and bar­  private art collections of the   words uito (willow)
       becue areas in the leafy park.   20th century. He bequeathed   and durŌn (gate).
       There are daily shows on   part of it to the town, and the
       various topics.     rest to the Swiss nation. The


                 S T . - G E O R G E N - S T R A S S E    Sammlung Oskar Reinhart  S T
                                     am Römerholz
                   THEATERSTR.  STRÄULISTR.  SULZBERGSTR.  LIEBESTRASSE  Kunst Museum  FALKENSTR. . - G E O R G E N - S T R A S S E
                                     1 km (0.5 mile)
                                  Beim Stadthaus
              MERKURSTR.
                     M U S E U M S T R A S S E    M U S E U M S T R A S S E    FRIEDENSTRASSE  PA LM STRASS E
         B A H N H O F P L A T Z    Kunst Museum
     Winterthur         Stadtgarten  LINDSTR.  Stadthaus
      station  BANKSTRASSE   Reinhart am  S T A D T H A U S S T R A S S E    G E N E R A L - G U I S A N - S T R A S S E    R Ö M E R S T R A S S E  2.5 km (1.5 miles)
                                                             Technorama
                     Stadtgarten
                                  Haus zur
         S T A D T H A U S S T R A S S E    Kunsthalle Rathaus  Geduld  O BE RTOR    Lindengut-
                            MA RKTG ASS E
                                                 park
     BAHNHOF-  U NT E RTO R   MARKTG.  Winterthur  KIRCH-  UNTERER GRABEN   AD L E RST R ASSE  SE I DEN STR A SSE    PA L M ST R A SS E
      PLATZ                      O BE RGA SS E   OBERER GRABEN   BADGASSE NEUSTADTGASSE
                            PLATZ
                 NEU-  METZGGASSE Stadtkirche
        ARCH-   MARKT
        PLATZ
       ARCH ST R.  TECHNIKUMSTRASSE     STEI N BE RG GA SSE  HOLDER-  TÖSSTALSTR.  S T .   G A L L E R S T R A S S E
                                   PLATZ
                                                   G Ä R T N
                     TURMHALDENSTR.                TECHNIKUMSTRASSE    T Ö S S T A L S T  Adlergarten  P A L M S T R A S S E
     L A G E R H A U S S T R A S S E
     FROHBERGSTR.                                    ADL E R STRASSE  E R S T R A S S E
             FROHBERGSTR.
                          Eulach
     0 metres  200  N   ROS ENSTR AS SE  WILD BACHSTRASSE  ZEUGHAUSSTRASE   Fotomuseum
                                      MÜHLESTR.
                                               OBERMÜH LESTR. R A S S E    GRÜZENSTR.
     0 yards  200    BÜELRAINSTR.        TEUCHELWELHER-
                                           PLATZ
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