ON A DELICATE MISSION
Tales of Swiss Diplomacy
Landesmuseum Zurich
May 16 – September 16, 2007

PRESS RELEASE

We provide you with several media texts and pictures. Please note that pictures may only be used in connection with press items covering our exhibitions/events and have to carry our copyright source. We thank you for sending us a copy of your article.

Picture 1
Alliance carpet (1703-1723) from designs by Charles Le Brun
© Swiss National Museum

Dress uniform of a Swiss diplomat (frock coat with Alpine roses). Midnight blue woollen cloth richly embroidered with gold thread, London 1935. © Swiss National Museum

Picture 2
Dress uniform of a Swiss diplomat (frock coat with Alpine roses). Midnight blue woollen cloth richly embroidered with gold thread, London 1935.
© Swiss National Museum

In May 1920 the people and cantons voted by 416,870 to 323,719 in favour of joining the League of Nations. Campaign poster from the Basle poster collection, Inv. 15589. © Basle poster collection

Picture 3
In May 1920 the people and cantons voted by 416,870 to 323,719 in favour of joining the League of Nations. Campaign poster from the Basle poster collection, Inv. 15589.
© Basle poster collection

Carl Lutz, Vice-Consul in Budapest, and his wife saved the lives of about 62,000 Jews by issuing forged safe-conducts. © Carl Lutz Estate, Archive for Contemporary History, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Picture 4
Carl Lutz, Vice-Consul in Budapest, and his wife saved the lives of about 62,000 Jews by issuing forged safe-conducts.
© Carl Lutz Estate, Archive for Contemporary History, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Flag of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin. Riddled with bullet holes when the Russians entered the city, lowered by Embassy staff and brought to Switzerland. It now forms part of the collection of the National Museum. © Swiss National Museum

Picture 5
Flag of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin. Riddled with bullet holes when the Russians entered the city, lowered by Embassy staff and brought to Switzerland. It now forms part of the collection of the National Museum.
© Swiss National Museum

Under its President, the Swiss diplomat August Lindt, the International Red Cross air-lifted food and medical supplies to the starving in Biafra. © Swiss National Museum/Actualité Suisse Lausanne

Picture 6
Under its President, the Swiss diplomat August Lindt, the International Red Cross air-lifted food and medical supplies to the starving in Biafra.
© Swiss National Museum/Actualité Suisse Lausanne

Trainers worn by Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey on the 20th May 2003, when as the first official representative of a foreign government she stepped over the demarcation line between North and South Korea. Loaned by Micheline Calmy-Rey. ©Swiss National Museum. Photo: Donat Stuppan

Picture 7
Trainers worn by Federal Councillor Micheline Calmy-Rey on the 20th May 2003, when as the first official representative of a foreign government she stepped over the demarcation line between North and South Korea. Loaned by Micheline Calmy-Rey.
©Swiss National Museum.
Photo: Donat Stuppan

Wettstein Cup, Strasbourg 1649. Johann Rudolf Wettstein, Mayor of Basle and Ambassador to the Congress which concluded the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), received it as a gift from seven business men in appreciation of his achieving Switzerland's separation from the German Empire. ©Basle Historical Museum, Inv. No. 1917.18. Photo: P. Portner HMB

Picture 8
Wettstein Cup, Strasbourg 1649. Johann Rudolf Wettstein, Mayor of Basle and Ambassador to the Congress which concluded the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), received it as a gift from seven business men in appreciation of his achieving Switzerland's separation from the German Empire.
©Basle Historical Museum, Inv. No. 1917.18. Photo: P. Portner HMB