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Bridging the Gap
TOP BEST ART
4 MUSEUMS Built in 2017 to connect two
sections of the Europaweg,
a summer hiking trail with Did You Know?
Kunstmuseum Bern stunning views, the Charles It takes the average
Opened in 1879, this is Kuonen Suspension Bridge is hiker 10 minutes to cross
one of Switzerland’s the longest in the world. The the Charles Kuonen
oldest art museums. daring walk across its 500-m Suspension Bridge.
(1,640-ft) length, swaying
Kunsthaus Zürich 85 m (280 ft) above the valley
A modern art home floor, is a real buzz. Once
to international stars you’ve got a taste for it, try
and homegrown heroes Glacier 3000’s Peak Walk,
such as Giacometti which stretches between
and Hodler. DISCOVER Switzerland Your Way two mountain summits, or
Lowenbrau cross above the tongue of a
glacier on the Trift bridge.
Complex, Zürich
Once a brewery,
now an unmissable Charles Kuonen Suspension
cultural centre. Bridge, with sweeping
views of the peaks
Musee d’Art et
A visitor perusing d’Histoire, Geneva
Stone Line (1977) An impressive gallery in SWITZERLAND FOR
by Richard Long, at the west of the country.
Basel’s Kunstmuseum ENGINEERING

Birthplace of Dadaism
Zürich’s most famous art Switzerland’s dramatic mountainscape has long been conquered by
moment came during World
War I when a counter-culture mountaineers – and by engineers. Whether you’re an engineer or not,
movement emerged focusing you can’t fail to be impressed by these incredible pioneering feats,
on anti-war politics and anti- old and new.
bourgeois ethic. It was called
Dadaism and its ground zero
today is Cabaret Voltaire Dam High
(p169), one of Switzerland’s Switzerland’s abundance
most vibrant avant garde of water means hydro-
art spaces and jazz bars. electricity is its primary
power source, evidenced
by numerous dams dotted
Performance art at throughout the mountains.
Zürich’s artistic nightclub, King of them all is the
the Cabaret Voltaire 285-m- (930-ft-) high
Grande Dixence (p105 ), the
tallest gravity dam in the
INSIDER TIP world. Take a guided tour
Comic Collection inside the dam and walk
Basel’s Cartoon Museum across its scenic top.
(www.cartoonmuseum.
ch) celebrates narrative
drawing, with one of The Grande Dixence
Europe’s most kaleido- set deep within
scopic collec tions of the mountains
caricature, comics and
graphic novels. In 2005,
the quirky museum was
extended and restyled
by Swiss archi tects
Herzog & de Meuron.

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