The Institute of Archaeology is one of the oldest institutes at the University of Zurich.

The Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich is one of two museums in Switzerland dedicated exclusively to antiquity. On the first floor of the historicist, Renaissance-style building, objects from the cultures of the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Near East - from the western Mediterranean to the Tigris in the east and from the Nile in the south to the Crimea in the north - are on display, from the 4th millennium BC to the middle of the 1st millennium AD. On two further floors, the important collection of casts, which has been systematically built up since the middle of the 19th century, brings the most important works of Greek and Roman sculpture to life - such as the pediment sculptures of the Parthenon (so-called Elgin Marbles), the discus thrower of Myron or the charioteer from Delphi, the Laocoon group, the reliefs of Trajan's Column in Rome and many more.


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