Rietberg Museum

The Rietberg Museum in Zürich is Switzerland’s museum for non-European art, presenting collections and exhibitions from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The museum’s holdings are displayed across historic villas and modern gallery spaces set in a park.

Exhibitions combine sculpture, textiles, ritual objects and other media with interpretive labels and educational programs to explore the cultural contexts of works from outside Europe. The museum hosts rotating temporary exhibitions alongside its permanent holdings.

The institution was established to showcase non-Western art in a setting distinct from the city’s major art museums, and the campus approach-historic houses set in a park-forms part of its identity as a cultural landscape. Facilities include gallery space, a research library and museum shop.

Located in the Rieterpark west of Zürich’s city center, the museum is set in green space and is reachable by tram or a short walk from central transport hubs.

• Collection focus: The museum specializes in art from outside Europe and organizes exhibitions that place objects in cultural and historical context rather than chronological survey alone.

What to See #

• Villa and park complex: Historic villas and purpose-built exhibition spaces set within a park, arranged to display the museum's collections of non-European art.
• Non-European art galleries: Galleries that present works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas with rotating thematic displays and educational programming.