Museums - Nordamerika Native Museum

Opened in 2003, the Nordamerika Native Museum is the successor to Zurich's former Indianermuseum, which was created in the beginning of the 1960s to display the Native American art collection of Gottfried Hotz, acquired by the City of Zürich in 1961. Originally housed in a school building in Zürich Aussersihl, the museum expanded its collection over four decades under the direction of Hans Läng and Denise Daenzer. At its new location, the museum displays one or two thematically stuctured exhibitions per year alongside its permanent collection.
The Hotz Collection still constitutes the basis of the museum, focusing mainly on the work of Arctic, Northwest Coast, Subarctic, Southwest, Plains, and Prairie cultures. Special exhibitions concentrate primarily on various aspects of contemporary living conditions in North American indigenous cultures.