8.11.2024 – 29.6.2025

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 100 world's best nature photographs

The exhibition Wildlife Photographer of the Year was with it's 60th edition to admire at our museum – exclusively in Switzerland. The special exhibition attracted over 90,000 people to the museum and once again met the need of many people to be enchanted by the beauty and fascination of nature. For the first time, the education team organised offers for school classes as part of the exhibition, which was particularly well received: over 250 classes visited the special exhibition. The snapshot photo competition and the focus tours with nature photographers also met with great 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 59,000 submitted photographs. The Natural History Museum, London is responsible for organising the competition.

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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 sixth time, which is aimed at amateur photographers. A comprehensive workshop programme was available for school classes in particular. 256 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 photographers Levi Fitze, Jiří Hřebíček, Michel Roggo and Roman Willi met with great interest. They opened up new views and perspectives on photography as well as the stories behind it.