Events in Bern Region - City events

The exhibition presents the foundation's assets in their entirety for the first time.

Barry, the most famous rescue dog in the world, died 200 years ago but remains a legend to this day.

A walk through the new display collection provides insight into current collection activity, modern research methods, and historical collections.

Célèbre créateur de décors et de costumes de théâtre, membre de la Sécession berlinoise, peintre muraliste sollicité pour les villas cossues et illustrateur de livres d’éditeurs renommés : la

Swiss art from across three centuries

The collection presentation focuses in particular on the Bernese Renaissance and early Florentine and Sienese painting from the 13th to 15th centuries.

A new cinematic exhibition about climate change and decolonization, overtourism, the hunt for natural resources, the future of youth and the vibrant Greenlandic music scene.

Hans Fischli was a Swiss architect, artist and student of Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus.

"Bolol, 2025" is dedicated to an often overlooked reality of migration.

Once a year, Bern's cultural institutions open their doors to night owls and offer a unique experience full of art, history and surprises.

The exhibition shows Schwitters' work from Dadaist collages and his reconstructed walk-in "Merzbau" in Hanover to naturalistic portraits and landscape paintings.

Das 51. Internationale Jazzfestival Bern findet vom 24. März bis 30. Mai 2026 statt.

BEA Bern is an exhibition for agriculture, trade and industry and the largest spring fair in Switzerland.

At the legendary soapbox race in Bern's old town, self-built soapboxes race down the Klösterlistutz for three days.

A colorful sea of wild plants on the Bundesplatz: The "Bärner Wildpflanzen Märit" (Bernese Wild Plants Market) has been offering around 400 native wild plant species for 30 years.

Every first Friday of the month, the shops, theatres, galleries, restaurants and bars in Biel's old town come alive.

One of the most important running events in Switzerland. What began in 1982 with 3,139 registered runners has developed into a road race with over 30,000 participants.

The Swiss Wind Music Association (SBV) is delighted to announce Biel as the venue for the 2026 Swiss Music Festival.

The climbing spectacle from May 22 to 24, 2026 in the Festhalle Bern

The Biel Running Days are Biel’s largest sporting event. The competition includes races over different distances and attracts a great many visitors from near and far.

The weeklong plusQ’île festival takes place in a spot with no kind of infrastructure - other than the tents and camping cars that accommodate artists in this open-to-all village setting.

"A run for women, a celebration for everyone!"

A festival by Bern for Bern: During the "Bärner Stadtfescht", the alleys and squares between the railway station and Nydeggbrücke are transformed into a colourful festival mile.

The legendary Biel summer festival par excellence! Every year it attracts around 100,000 visitors from near and far to Biel.

The Latin Festival Thun is a colorful open-air festival with live music, dance, workshops and gastronomy from Latin America. It promotes cultural exchange, integration and encounters.

Pristine waters and majestic mountains

The summer festival in Biel's old town is the cultural week of the region. The Pod'Ring invites laughter, dancing and enjoyment. In the afternoon, the square is a playground for young and old.

Enjoy the open-air program in a historical scenery in the moat of Murten.

The Biel Chess Festival, uninterrupted for over half a century, is a cornerstone of international chess.

Every summer, nearly 80,000 music lovers make the pilgrimage to the legendary Gurtenfestival.

On Saturday, July 25, 2026, we will once again parade through Bern's city center and celebrate at the subsequent Pride Festival on the Federal square.

Dance, laugh, love! For three days, street artists from all over the world turn Bern’s Old Town into a colorful hustle and bustle.

The largest annual city festival in Switzerland with live music, fine food and refreshing drinks.

The Murten Classics summer festival is an open-air festival dedicated to classical music.

Franz Gertsch (1930-2022) is considered a Swiss pioneer of photorealism and a master of the modern woodcut. The retrospective Franz Gertsch.

Am 26. September gibt es im Bälliz in Thun eine Vielzahl von Schweizer Käse-Spezialitäten zu entdecken!