Museum invites you to the Day of the Empty Langmatt
The Langmatt Museum invites you to visit the already empty rooms before the start of the two-year complete renovation. They will be open to interested parties on 25 February with a guided tour from the cellar to the roof.
The two-year renovation of the Langmatt Museum in Baden begins on 1 March. The museum is inviting the public to visit on Sunday, 25 February, on Empty Langmatt Day. The public can circulate freely with free admission and view all the rooms, including those that were previously not open to the public, according to a press release. The Empty Langmatt Day offers spectacular insights from the cellar to the attic, it continues.
Director Markus Stegmann and assistant curator Daniela Minneboo will guide visitors on a 40-minute tour of the empty Langmatt at 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm and 5 pm. Children aged five and over can go on a 15-minute discovery tour of the house with art and culture mediator Vera Horat at 3 pm, 4 pm and 5 pm.
For the complete renovation, around 2,500 historical objects and paintings as well as countless everyday items had to be carefully packed and transported to an external storage facility, from Renoir’s famous “plait” to the last coffee spoon. All the rooms had to be emptied, even the historic libraries, curtains and crystal chandeliers had to leave their original places.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the renovation will take place on Friday, 1 March. Under the direction of Zurich architects Ernst Niklaus Fausch Partner AG, the Langmatt, including the park, will be transformed into a building site. During the two-year renovation, occasional public tours of the construction site and themed workshops for school classes are planned.
Before all the objects return to the newly renovated Langmatt in spring 2026, a day at the empty “new” Langmatt will give the public the opportunity to compare the differences to the “old” Langmatt, according to the museum’s press release.