Educational facility and workshop area
Around ten themed workshops for school pupils at all levels make the MATERIAL LAB into an Aladdin’s Cave for inquisitive children and young people. Our educational resources for schools are constantly being expanded and enhanced. In addition to the workshops, a number of different workbooks and study sheets are currently available for students of all ages, as well as tips and instructions for teachers wishing to bring their classes on informal visits.
Impressions of the permanent exhibition
Interdisciplinary network
The MATERIAL ARCHIV online database is an extended digital reference work on materials which is managed and regularly updated by several prestigious Swiss educational institutions in the fields of design, architecture and art. This database can be accessed online, but it is also linked by scanners to every single specimen material in the exhibition rooms of the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. The link-up between the database and the specimen collection allows significant knowledge of materials to be generated, enabling the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur to provide students and visitors with deep and wide-ranging insights into the world of materials.
MATERIAL ARCHIV is cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary. The following institutions currently support the network:
- Winterthur Museum of Applied Arts and Design
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - School of Engineering and Architecture
- Sitterwerk Art and Production
- Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
- Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - School of Art and Design
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur
- Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zürich (SBCZ)
- Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, DE
- FHNW School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics
