Zunfthaus zur Waag

This guide to the Zunfthaus zur Waag on Zurich's Munsterhof square starts from a claim on its own sign: that the building is seven hundred years old. It traces the name back to 1315, to an apothecary named Peter Schmid and the scale, or Waag, he hung outside his shop, then follows how linen and wool weavers inherited both the house and its nickname over the next century. Along the way you'll meet the guild hall's walnut paneling and its painted stove upstairs. The question the guide keeps circling is whether the number on the sign is really about the building at all.