Museums

Largest diorama exhibit in Europe: 220 showcases depicting native and exotic birds and mammals in their natural habitat. The famous "Barry", the Saint Bernard dog.

The only museum dedicated to the Swiss Alps introduces the visitors to cultural and natural pecularities of the Alpine world. The journey of discovery into the past and present of the Swiss Alps and their cultural and natural peculiarities is accompanied by videos, commented slides, multivision, info-stations, representations, and impressive originals.

The Museum will be closed until November 2008 for renovation work.

The Abegg Foundation is an institute of art history which devotes its research to early textiles and applied art.

The collection of the Bern Museum of Art comprises works from seven centuries. More than 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 works on paper are on display in the art museum.

The only museum in Switzerland dedicated exclusively to communication in its entire bandwidth, from body language and culture dialogue to the exchange of information using old and new media.

With approximately 4,000 pictures by Paul Klee, the famous painter, the new Zentrum Paul Klee is the largest collection of this kind worldwide.