From Albrecht Dürer to the present day

In the summer exhibition of the Hans Erni Museum 2025, Heinz Stahlhut, Director of the Hans Erni Museum, and Britta Allgöwer, former Director of the Lucerne Nature Museum and President of the Academia Raetica, Graubünden, weave the many aspects of the horse into a picture of art, cultural and natural history. The motif of the horse in Erni's oeuvre, accompanied by works by other artists from different eras, is particularly important. Aspects of the horse's developmental history, biology, behavior, breeding and forms of use are also highlighted.

The "Horses" exhibition is intended as a small homage to our most loyal companions and enablers of our own development. Heinz Stahlhut and Britta Allgöwer dare to take stock of this millennia-old human-animal relationship and at the same time invite visitors to the exhibition to explore their relationship to the horse - and to mobility.

With works by Jacques Laurent Agasse, René Auberjonois, René Beeh, Hansjürg Buchmeier, Paul Camenisch, Edouard Castres, August Deusser, Albrecht Dürer, Martin Disteli, Félicia Eisenring, Franz Elmiger, Ignaz Epper, Hans Erni, August Frey, Bendicht Friedli, Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti, Wilhelm Gimmi, Francisco de Goya, Martin Gut, Bo He, Charles Hindenlang, Hans Jauslin, Max Klinger, Otto Morach, Karl Moor, Heinrich Müller, Werner Neuhaus, Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini, Roland Pirk-Bucher, Franz Pforr, Johannes Robert Schürch, Ernst Schurtenberger, Louis Soutter, Lars Teichmann, Otto Tschumi, Gustave van de Woestyne, Claudio Edgar Constant Vital and others.

A publication and an extensive program of events will accompany the exhibition.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Swiss Museum of Transport's shipping hall, the Swiss Museum of Transport and its sister institution, the Hans Erni Museum, are jointly staging an exhibition. It showcases key items from the internationally important collection of objects, images and documents relating to ocean shipping.

Philipp Keller (1895-1980), a long-distance merchant active between Brazil and Switzerland, bequeathed his entire collection and library on shipping to the Swiss Museum of Transport, in addition to Villa Krämerstein in Kastanienbaum.

The collection can be used to trace the intensive networking between Switzerland and Brazil, the rapid technological change in shipping, but also the Swiss contribution to global colonialism.

Numerous models, photos and documents from the Keller collection are being shown to the public for the first time.

A catalog and a varied program of events accompany the exhibition.