Bern Historical Museum
Established | 1894 |
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Location | Helvetiaplatz, Bern, Switzerland |
Coordinates | 46°56′35″N 7°26′57″E / 46.94306°N 7.44917°E |
Type | History |
Collection size | 500,000[1] |
Director | Jakob Messerli |
Architect | André Lambert |
Website | www |
The Bern Historical Museum (
The museum contains collections related to the history of Bern from prehistoric times to the present and other artefacts on permanent display from Asia, Oceania, America and Egypt. One of the most remarkable items in the collection is the Muri statuette group, a group of six Gallo-Roman bronze figurines, and the Moringen arrowhead, determined to be of meteoric origin in 2023 despite being in the collection for well over a century.[4]
The Bern Historical Museum is a
Over the museum's entrance is a glass mosaic, "The Age of History", featuring the figures of Poetry and History, made in 1900 by the Swiss painter Léo-Paul Robert.[6]
Einstein Museum
First conceived as a temporary exhibition in 2005, the Einstein Museum became a museum dedicated to the life and work of
Footnotes
- ^ Museum website accessed 18 September 2017
- ^ Museum website-History Archived 2018-08-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed 18 September 2017
- ^ Museum website-Architecture accessed 18 September 2017
- ISSN 0305-4403.
- ^ "Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance". A-Objects. Federal Office for Cultural Protection (BABS). 1 January 2017. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Exterior views". Bernisches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 24 April 2019.