APG|SGA: Historical posters under the sign of the sports year 2012
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich and APG|SGA work closely together and present monthly changing virtual exhibitions of historical posters at Apgsga.ch/emuseum. The year 2012 is dedicated to sports.
Every month, the eMuseum on the APG|SGA website publishes new subjects from the extensive poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. The focus of the month of May is on summer sports such as swimming, hiking, and sailing. June is dedicated to football, and July shows the Olympic tradition. The choice of the annual theme fell on sports because many important sporting events such as the Olympic Games in London or the European Football Championships in Poland and Ukraine are taking place in 2012, according to a statement by APG|SGA. The historical posters from the museum's archive illustrate how early sport and health became a central theme of industrialized society and thus of advertising.
Poster history archive
The poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung is one of the most extensive and important archives of its kind in the world. Over 330,000 objects bear witness to Swiss and international poster history - from its beginnings in the mid-19th century to the present day. The collection includes political, cultural and commercial posters. Its diversity in historical, thematic and geographical terms enables both a tour d'horizon of poster art and a look into a visual archive of the everyday world.
