Swiss Alpine Museum Bern

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau mountains are only a stone's throw from Bern. The only place being closer to the mountains is the Swiss Alpine Museum (alps).
History and tradition
Nature and environment
Bern
Switzerland
The unique site presents home exhibitions on current mountain issues from all over the world in an unconventional way. They are complemented by the experimental bivouac, the museum's shop and the alpine cuisine at the in-house restaurant of «las alps».

Temporary exhibitions

Fragmentin

Biwak#32: Fictions subsoil

Exhibition for the SAC Art Award for Fragmentin
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Power lines, fibre optic cables and water pipes - the infrastructure of our digital society today also reaches the mountains. What archaeological remains of this will future generations find underground? For Bivouac#32, the young Lausanne artists' collective Fragmentin travels into an imagined...
Lost and Found Memories Office №2: Women on the Mountain

Lost and Found Memories Office №2: Women on the Mountain

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Women have always climbed mountains with the same enthusiasm, virtuosity and fearlessness as men. However, for a long time this went largely unnoticed and women’s accounts were hardly documented. The Lost and Found Memories Office wants to change this: From December 2021 onwards, the participatory...
Heimat. Auf Spurensuche in Mitholz

Heimat. Tracing the Story of Mitholz

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Mitholz has been dealt a double blow: in 1947 a military ammunition depot exploded in this unassuming village in the Bernese Oberland. Nine people died and numerous houses were destroyed. In 2020 the Swiss Federal Council decided to retrieve the munitions that remained entombed in the mountain. This...
Swiss Alpine Museum Bern
Swiss Alpine Museum Bern
Suitable for families
Opening hours
On 15/07/2021
Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00-17:00
Thursday until 8 pm (in May and June)
Address
Swiss Alpine Museum Bern
Helvetiaplatz 4
3005
Bern
Switzerland
+41 31 350 04 40
http://www.alpinesmuseum.ch
info@alpinesmuseum.ch
Wheelchair access
Shop
Parking
Restaurant
Train
Bus access

46.944079, 7.44829