Human History and More at the Anthropological Museum

The museum has two levels. One first floor are exhibits about current scientific experiments going on at UZH and elsewhere in Switzerland. Exhibits included information on the Large Hadron Collider and a citizen scientist project collecting water data.

There was also a small section dedicated to botany. There was an amazing collecting of scientific artwork from the early 1900s; Josef Hamel took photographs of plants on glass diapositives and hand painted them for scientific instruction. They're very beautiful and the exhibit included a movie about his technique (which was unfortunately for me only in German).

The anthropology part of the museum is downstairs. Exhibits include interactive slides explaining early human history and evolution, and several replica fossils, statues, and life-sized displays.

I thought it was educational and everything looked clean and neat. The museum was organized in chronological order from early pre-human ape-like animals to modern humans.

The museum is located on one of the UZH campuses. The campus itself is not very pretty, but it's right next to the Irchelpark, which has trails, ponds, and even a nearby bouldering wall (which I later found out is only for students).

I was also pleased to see a coffee shop right next to the museum that looked very cozy.

I walked there but there's a direct tram line right to the campus, so like pretty much everything in Zurich, it's super easy to get there by public transit.

This was definitely a five snack experience—enjoy!