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Hallen für neue Kunst / Schaffhausen - Collection of international contemporary artists as Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Lawrence Weiner.
Musée de l'Elysée - A museum for photography. [Site in French with a small English part.]
Swiss museums Guide - Description of most museums in Switzerland, order by theme, opening hours, descriptions of collections in German
Kunsthaus Glarus - About collections and exhibitions. In German and English.
Kunsthalle Bern - Museum of Art in Bern displays modern contemporary art exhibits. In English and German.
Swiss National Museum - Archeology, cultural history, art and design of the Swiss people are displayed on 8 locations. Site in English, German, French and Italian.
WWW Virtual Library : Museums in Switzerland - Guide to the websites of Swiss museums.
Baur Collection - Geneva - Exhibits one of the finest collections of Chinese porcelains, jades, and Japanese art treasures in Europe.
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva - Walk through the history of an universal movement, initiated by Henry Dunant. In English, German and French.
The Basel Museums - Official website of the museums of Basel, Switzerland. A-Z list of museums with links; comprehensive list of current and upcoming special exhibits.
Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication - "Verkehrshaus der Schweiz", located in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Dinosaur Museum Aathal - Includes overview, photos, news, and a virtual walk through the museum. In German and English.
Fondation Beyeler - Collection of works by modern masters in Basel. Pictures of exhibits, online art shop, event dates.
Diorama Bethlehem - Display illustrates the Christmas story with over 450 wood-carved figures wearing oriental costumes in a realistic reproduction of the environs of Bethlehem. Located in Einsiedeln. Slide show, facts and figures, visitor information.
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Museums Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Museums A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Museums We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Museums In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Museums When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Museums It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Museums A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley More than kisses, letters mingle souls. -- John Donne Museums .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Museums It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Museums Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Museums If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Museums Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Museums Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Museums The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Museums blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Museums A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost Museums Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Museums "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Museums The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Museums "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion Museums
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