Switzerland + Germany: Global Business

Cities: Berlin, Zurich
Duration: 15 days
Area of Study: Business, Economics & Marketing

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Program Includes

• 14 Nights of Accommodation

• All Ground Transportation (including transportation pass)

• Daily Continental Breakfast

• Welcome & Farewell Dinners

• Historical & Cultural Walking Tours

• Full Time Local tour leader

• Full Time On Site Program Director (Available 24/7 in case of Emergencies)

• Tips & Gratuities

Program Highlights

• Business Visits

• Berlin Alternative Walking Tour

• Deutsche Kinemathek

• Sammlung Boros Museum

• Berlin Global

• Letter Museum

• Museum of Design Zurich

• Museum Island

• The Wall Museum

• Vitra Design Museum

• Chocolate Walking Tour

• Pavillon Le Corbusier

• Musée Visionnaire

Program Itinerary

day 1 / DEPARTURE
Depart Home for Berlin, Germany
day 2 / BERLIN
Arrive in Berlin, Germany

Airport Transfer

Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do in case of an emergency.

Berlin Walking Tour - See the Brandenburg Gate, Site of Hitler’s bunker, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Checkpoint Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt, The Berlin Wall, and more.

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.

day 3 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Business Visit - i.e Berlin Innovation Agency, Montionlab, Mindspace, etc. 

Lunch Break

Berlin Alternative Tour- Berlin’s air is thick with paint. Its soundtrack is the clack-clack of a spray can in the night. Tags tell as much of a story as five story murals, a blast from a high pressured fire extinguisher can be as expressive as a centuries old canvas from a Dutch master. Let artists tell you the secrets, the history, the techniques, the rules and the personal stories of graffiti and street art in a walk through a city whose very walls are canvas. This is a comprehensive history of graffiti and its culture.

day 4 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Business Visit - i.e Berlin Innovation Agency, Montionlab, Mindspace, etc.

Lunch Time

Free afternoon at the Museum Island - Grand work of art: five world-famous museum buildings from the time of the Prussian rulers, together with the modern James Simon Gallery, form an exciting ensemble that was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999. In 1999, the Museum Island master plan was also adopted. The core of this is an underground connection, the Archaeological Promenade, to be built between the museum buildings.

Reichstag Building - On October 30, 1991, the Council of Elders of the Bundestag decided that the historic Reichstag building by architect Paul Wallot from 1894 should be restored and used as the seat of an all-German parliament. The ruins of the Reichstag building were rebuilt in the 1960s, but were not used as a parliament building. 

day 5 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

The Wall Museum - Visitors experience the history of the division of Berlin and the most beautiful event of the Germans - the fall of the Berlin Wall, staged using multimedia and with a common thread from the construction of the Wall to its fall in 1989. The Mauer Museum is located in the former mill warehouse at the famous East Side Gallery and the Oberbaumbrücke border station.

Lunch Break

Free afternoon

day 6 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Deutsche Kinemathek -  Collecting, preserving, developing, presenting, and mediating our audiovisual heritage – these have been tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek since its opening in 1963. 

Lunch Break

Sammlung Boros Museum - The Boros Collection is a private collection of contemporary art. It includes groups of works by international artists dating from 1990 to the present. Different facets of the collection of Karen and Christian Boros are on public display in a converted bunker, with 3000 sqm of exhibition space.

day 7 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free day in Berlin

day 8 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Berlin Global - Yesterday, today, tomorrow: much of what happens in Berlin has an impact on the world. And much of what happens in the world affects Berlin. BERLIN GLOBAL shows on 4,000 square meters in the Humboldt Forum how the city and its people are connected to the world.

Lunch Break

Letter Museum -  This unique collection from the world of letters displays more than 1,000 examples of letters, logos and signs. Most of the exhibits come from the Berlin cityscape including, for example, the letters “HAUP” from the former central station, today’s Ostbahnhof. The founders of the museum have been saving letters, symbols and adverts for posterity since 2005. The first exhibition in 2008 contains exhibits weighing up to 100 kilograms and 2.5 metres in height.

day 9 / BERLIN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free day in Berlin

day 10 / ZURICH
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Train transfer to Zurich (approx. 9 hours)

Check-in, Refresh and Relax

day 11 / ZURICH
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Cultural Walking Tour - The historic heart of the city beats on both sides of the Limmat river. Here, guild houses, churches, historic squares, and hidden-away places nestle alongside each other.

Lunch Break

Museum of Design Zurich - The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading Swiss museum for design and visual communication. Since its foundation in 1875, the museum has included what has taken effect as design. Its internationally acclaimed collection comprises over half a million objects from the history of design.

day 12 / ZURICH
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Pavillon Le Corbusier  -  The Pavillon Le Corbusier on Lake Zurich is considered an architectural jewel. The building was initiated by Heidi Weber, who commissioned Le Corbusier and oversaw its completion in 1967. Since 2019, the pavilion is run as a public museum by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich on behalf of the City of Zurich.

Lunch Break

Musée Visionnaire - Our exhibitions are different. We look for hidden treasures in archives, ateliers and psychiatric institutions, trying to spot the creative power of unconventional people, outsiders, odd fishes and unknown artists.

day 13 / BASEL
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Train Transfer to Basel (approx. 1 hour)

Vitra Museum - The Vitra Design Museum is dedicated to the research and presentation of design, past and present, and examines its relationship to architecture, art, and everyday culture. Every year, the Vitra Design Museum organizes up to ten exhibitions on a wide range of topics about design and architecture, which are shown in the main building by Frank Gehry, in the Schaudepot by Herzog & de Meuron and in other locations on the Vitra Campus.

Free time in Basel

Return to Zurich (approx. 1 hour)

day 14 / ZURICH
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Chocolate Walking Tour - Experience one-of-a-kind, award-winning chocolate creations. You’ll visit some of the city’s best artisanal chocolateries – from traditional to modern- and experience chocolate in all shapes and forms. During the tour you will learn the secrets of the origins and manufacturing of chocolate, as well as the history of Swiss chocolate. 

Lunch Break

Free time in Zurich

day 15 / ZURICH
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Free day in Zurich

Farewell Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.

day 16 / RETURN
Breakfast & Day Briefing

Airport Transfer

Depart Zurich, Switzerland for Home

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