The Swiss National Museum in Zurich was inaugurated in 1898. This project by Gustav Gull, a young architect from Zurich, had asserted itself in a contest for the location
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Despite our outstanding position as the largest hospital in the canton, we must move forward. For, who pauses today will be overtaken tomorrow. I stress this point at eve
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