The National Museum Zurich, which stands next to Zurich Main Train Station, is reminiscent of a fairytale castle. However, anyone passing through the arches into the inner courtyard will also find a modern new building, which counterbalances the original building constructed in the historicism style.
Find out about the first modern stock corporation, revolutionary business ideas, and how huge corporations have emerged from the 16th century to the present day. The permanent exhibition of the Swiss Finance Museum offers a comprehensive look into the Swiss financial market, and provides fascinating links between economic history and the modern innovations of the financial sector. Key historical pieces from one of the world's biggest and most important collections of securities will allow you to trace the development of our modern financial economy all the way back to the 16th century.