Long Night of the Zurich Museums 2024
Saturday, 7 September 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 02:00 a.m.
Together with colleagues from the Palaeontological Institute, the Zurich Wilderness Park and the Dinosaur Museum in Aathal we offer a varied programme with bird folding, fossil tapping and music.
Tickets can be purchased online – via Eventfrog. We do not offer the possibility to buy tickets at the museum.
- Find ticketinformation here
- Programme of all the museums here
- Programme of the Natural History Museums UZH here (PDF, 110 KB)
7:00 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. Bird folding action
Birds are today's dinosaurs! Join in and fold a winged dinosaur that will become part of a colourful flock of birds. In the following weeks the flock can be marvelled at in the museum.
6:00 p.m. – 00:00 a.m. Fossil tapping – Posidonia slate adventure
People of school age and older search for real fossils: that can be taken home!
6:00 – 11:00 p.m. A tasteful night with food trucks on the ETH-Polyterasse
Treat yourself to a break and enjoy food and drink in the open air on ETH's Polyterasse.
Band – the Origins (8:00, 9:30, 11:00 p.m.)
The museum's own band "the Origins" rocks behind the mammoth skeleton with their palaeontologically reworked songs.