VTMZ | Association
The association Tram-Museum Zurich lives from its members, who restore historic trams and buses for the public to enable young and old to have exciting journeys like in the past.
Become a member
The association, which currently has around 550 members, looks after the operation of the historic trams owned by the Zurich Transport Authority. It offers its members a varied annual programme and makes the museum's lively operation possible through voluntary work.
Your membership or donation will help to restore more vehicles and secure the museum's future funding.
It all began with simple tools and a lot of passion. In 1967, a few Zurich tram enthusiasts got together in the unheated rear depot of Burgwies. They founded the Zurich Tram Museum Association and have restored 15 historically valuable rail vehicles in around 70,000 hours of hard work to date. With perseverance and expertise, the members collected documents, treasures and witnesses to contemporary history - and soon they had put together what is still the most important collection on the development of local transport in Switzerland.
The old museum premises in Wartau were no longer sufficient to present all the treasures in an appropriate form. Thanks to a lot of persuasion from the city and donors large and small, the association was able to fulfil a dream: On 24 May 2007, the Zurich Tram Museum was inaugurated in the Burgwies depot. The operation of the museum was taken over by the Tram Museum Zurich Foundation, which was set up specifically for this purpose.
The Zurich Tram Museum Association
- restores and maintains historic trams and buses from the city of Zurich
- operates the museum line from Pestalozzianlage / Bahnhofstrasse to the tram museum in Burgwies
- maintains a renowned and recognised archive in the field of local transport
- operates the fahrBar at the Zurich Tram Museum on travelling days
- supports the Zurich Tram Museum
- organises specialist excursions in Switzerland and abroad
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