The way we were

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"Table discipline in Zurich". Oil on canvas. Anonymous. 1643. Permanent loan from private owner. © Swiss National Museum

Portrait of Heinrich Rieter-Zeller and family. Oil on canvas. Signed: Joseph Reinhard. 1803. © Swiss National Museum

Protestant farmhouse living room in Appenzell Innerrhoden. Water colour. Traugott Schiess. Around 1860. © Swiss National Museum

Photo of Friedrich Marbach, builder, and family, Bern. Black and white print. Gebr. Kölla, Bern. Around 1900. © Swiss National Museum

Women and children outside a house in Ticino. Black and white glass-plate slide. Rudolf Zinggeler-Danioth, Kilchberg. Around 1900. © Swiss National Museum

Thomas's first steps. Thalwil. Summer 1969. Film still from N8 amateur film. © Elke and Martin Ulrich Senn

Camille and Ambra picking flowers in Seelisberg (Canton Uri). Digital photograph, 2005. © Willy Spiller

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Pictures of families through the ages.

The Swiss National Museum in Zurich is holding an exhibition “Families – the constant is change” focusing on the development of the Swiss middle class family since 1750. It offers a fascinating glimpse into how families were shaped by social and economic change.