A Great Day Out
Until 8th November 2026
The car is as much a part of 20th-century leisure culture as the Tremola is to the Gotthard Pass. Sunday trips to the countryside, picnics at the top of the pass, or a holiday drive down south – the mass production of small cars satisfied a new appetite for mobility and created personal freedom.
'A Great Day Out’ uses amateur film footage to recount the unclouded joy of car journeys and mountain pass excursions from the 1920s to the 1980s, when even a traffic jam was still an experience in itself. The film material comes mainly from private collections in the canton of Ticino. The films tell their stories through moving, sometimes jerky images – without words, yet deeply evocative. Sit back in your car seat and immerse yourself in the film collage.
An exhibition in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del San Gottardo.
