Rietberg Museum

If you're interested in history you must pay a visit to the Rietberg Museum! The history of the site on which the Museum Rietberg stands today begins in the summer of 1857, when Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, a married couple from Wuppertal, moved into their newly-built, grand, neo-classical house, today’s Villa Wesendonck. Otto Wesendonck, a shareholder in a silk trading company, had come to Zurich from New York in 1851, to set up home with his 24-year-old wife Mathilde. The Wesendoncks’ new home soon became a cultural meeting place. Go there and learn the full story ...

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Things to do in Zurich: Zurich Zoo, Zunfthaus Zur Meisen, Fraumunster, Rietberg Museum, Great Church, Grossmunster, Cruise Lake, Rhine Falls, Museum of Art, Zurich Toy Museum, Swiss National Museum, Old Town in Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse, Cafe Zurich, Zurich Lake, Parade Square, Schipfe, Lindenhof Square.