Switzerland: Zürich 1.5-3.5

I am too lazy to go through a week's worth of photos, that I have for Ireland, so here is Switzerland instead.  

One of the towers of Grossmünster.

Grossmünster Portal.

Lovely construction in front of the opera house.  I was going to go, but they were only performing Falstaff while I was there.  No thank you!

Courtyard of Fraumünster.  Which is lined with frescoes.  I was very surprised to see all of the modern art.  Almost all of the churches had post-1930 stained glass.  These frescoes are clearly 20th century as well (see below). 

This is how I spent my first evening.  Listening to a rehearsal in St. Peter's.  Much better than the opera.  Plus it was free.

The next day in Enge, a district of Zürich. 

Here was the exception to what I said above.  My kind of church. 

Museum Rietberg in Enge.  Full of exotic (non-Western) art.  These were Chinese, I believe.  Asian, definitely.

 African masks.  I forget from where. 

Slit drum from Papua New Guinea. 

Mexican snake.

Tlingit.  Their collection was appalling.

Landesmuseum (civic museum). 

This certainly made me laugh.  "Die Herren von amerikanischen Steueramt" or "The men from the American tax office." 

"What! We are not on the list of 'Very Important Losers'!"

 This one is terrible.  "Finally they integrate themselves better, the Muslims."  Apparently I did not take a picture of my favorite.  Schade.

 Out a window, that I am pretty sure I was not supposed to open. 

 I honestly cannot say where this one was.  In Zürich. 

Fraumünster.  Off to the left, between the two buildings, is that courtyard.