The museum shows the industrialization and history of the textile industry in the Zurich Oberland. Visitors can experience the entire production process for a piece of fabric with functioning historical machines.

The Neuthal Museum brings 200 years of textile and industrial culture back to life. The site of Adolf Guyer-Zeller's former spinning mill is now home to a museum with an important collection of functioning historical textile machines. The largely intact hydroelectric power plant takes visitors back to the early days of industrial power generation. In the spinning, weaving and embroidery exhibition areas, the process from the cotton bale to the finishing of a fabric can be experienced.

Special exhibitions and events shed light on a wide range of topics relating to textiles, technology, energy and industrial culture in the past, present and future.

The museum is a site of national importance. The ensemble of factory and outbuildings, workshop, manufacturer's villa and park, warehouses and farm buildings, tasting houses and, last but not least, the viaduct of the former "Uerikon-Bauma Railway", built from 1827 onwards, provides an authentic insight into the history of the region, Switzerland and far beyond.

Water power: No industrialization without water power. The historical installation with three ponds, pressure pipes and turbines shows how the use of water power made industrialization possible in the first place. In the underground of the museum, turbines that are still in operation today can be viewed.

Spinning: Cotton spinning was at the very beginning of Switzerland's industrialization and was therefore also a driving force for other economic sectors.
other economic sectors. The entire spinning process from cotton bale to yarn can be seen on historical spinning machines from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Weaving: The weaving machine collection of the former Rüti machine factory reflects the eventful industrial and technological history of Switzerland. The working weaving machines show the rapid development from the first mechanized loom to the latest technologies.

Embroidery: Embroidery has been enhancing woven fabrics for centuries. With the invention of the hand embroidery machine around 1830, productivity
productivity skyrocketed. There are three operational hand embroidery machines in Neuthal, on which up to a hundred
individual pieces or entire ribbons can be embroidered.

Special exhibition season 2024/2025: "fashion makes money: The global fashion industry, my closet and me"


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