Zurich's Long Night of Museums 2019
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 18.00 to 02.00 Uhr
Celebrate with us: 20 years Zurich's Long Night of museums, 10 years focusTerra, 50 years moon landing and 1 year Mars InSight mission. We present you our «Best of» of the past 10 years. Visit our activities in the fields of space, volcanoes, ice&climate and earthquakes.
Programme in focusTerra
18:00–02:00 (non-stop)
Mars-, moon- and earthquakes
Geology in the simulator
18:00–00:00 (non-stop)
Space and polar explorers
Supervised experiments
19:00, 22:00, 00:15 (approx. 45 Min)
Fire and Ice – let's rumble!
Rock'n'roll dance show with introductory course
Performed by the dance club Long Tall Ernie
18:15 (approx. 30 Min)
Erdbeben & Tsunamis: Die Macht der Wellen (only in German)
Talk by Prof. Dr. Stefan Wiemer, Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich
20:30, 23:00 (approx. 30 Min)
Supervulkane: Eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit? (only in German)
Talk by Prof. Dr. Olivier Bachmann, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich
21:15 (approx. 30 Min)
InSight: Mission zum Mars (only in German)
Talk by Dr. Simon Stähler, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich
20:00, 23:45, 01:15 (approx. 20 Min)
Short films (both films are shown at the same time):
- Final frontiers?
Short film with German and English subtitles
In collaboration with the planetarium at the Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne - Kaassassuk, the orphan
English with German subtitles, for age 8 or older
Greenlandic animation film by Perlefilm ©, 2016
18:00–02:00 (non-stop)
Food Universe
Hot Dogs and drinks
DR. DOG Hot Dog Catering
Zurich's Long Night of Museums is subject to a fee.