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21.11.2025 – 28.6.2026
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 100 world's best nature photographs
The exhibition Wildlife Photographer of the Year was with it's 61st edition to admire at our museum – exclusively in Switzerland. The special exhibition attracted about 87,000 people to the museum and once again met the need of many people to be enchanted by the beauty and fascination of nature. The education team organised offers for school classes as part of the exhibition, which was particularly well received: over 236 classes visited the special exhibition. The snapshot photo competition and the focus tours with nature photographers as well as the talks with entrepreneur André Hoffmann and environmental ambassador Prince Hussain Aga Khan attracted a great deal of interest.
The competition sets new standards in nature photography every year and is considered the most important of its kind in the world. A jury selected the 100 most outstanding images from over 60,000 submitted photographs. The Natural History Museum, London is responsible for organising the competition.
SUPPORTING PROGRAMME WITH DEPTH
The special exhibition was accompanied by a varied programme of events. In addition to regular guided tours for adults and families, the After Hours and an inclusion programme, the museum team held the participatory photo competition SNAPSHOT for the seventh time.1,151 amateur photographers from Switzerland, as well as from Germany, France and Austria, submitted their ‘snapshots’. A comprehensive workshop programme was available for school classes in particular. 236 classes delved deeper into topics such as biodiversity, animal behaviour, knowledge of species and the impact of humans on nature. The dialogue-based focus tours with Swiss nature photographer Levi Fitze, spider expert Christian Kropf, photographer Zoo Basel, Stefan Leimer, picture editor and wildlife photographer Julie Lovens and veterinairian Zoo Basel, Fabia Wyss met with great interest. They opened up new perspectives and ways of looking at photography and the stories behind it, and explored individual thematic aspects in greater depth with fascinating background information drawn from their specific wealth of knowledge and experience.
A HIGHLIGHT BY ANNOUNCMENT
A highlight of the exhibition’s supporting programme was the two panel discussions focusing on nature conservation, sustainability and the vulnerability of our blue planet. In a packed auditorium, André Hoffmann, entrepreneur and family shareholder of the pharmaceutical group Roche, discussed the prospect of a new approach to business with journalist Tobias Bossard. Environmental ambassador Prince Hussain Aga Khan spoke about his long-standing commitment to the oceans, drawing on his award-winning photograph of a pink river dolphin featured in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. In the subsequent discussion with evolutionary biologist Mathias Kölliker, the passionate photographer highlighted the importance of the marine ecosystem for the entire planet.