Historical Museum of Bern

The Bernese Historical Museum at Helvetia in Bern is the second largest historical museum in Switzerland.

Collection

The Bernese Historical Museum has extensive collections of Prehistory and Early History in the Canton of Bern, the history of the city and canton of Bern as well as an important ethnographic collection. Worth mentioning are the Burgundian tapestries that were taken off the Bold during the Burgundian Wars the Burgundian Duke Charles. The fragments recovered in 1986 the so-called sculptures Bernese Funds are among the attractions of the museum. Overall, the museum has 250,000 objects. From 1954 to January 2009, a branch of the Museum was housed in Oberhofen Castle.

1914 Henri Moser founded his very extensive " collection Henri Moser Oriental Charlotte rock" with the obligation to maintain and exhibit them. To make this possible, the museum received the same also a foundation for an extension. This collection is no longer issued for decades and the corresponding spaces are used differently.

As part of the temporary exhibition " The lake dwellers - On water and over the Alps" are the artifacts found on the Schnidejoch until October 26, 2014 first issued on April 3.

Construction

The building was built by the end of 1892 to 1894 in Bern Church 's field headquarters in the style of historicism by Eduard von Rodt and Adolf Tièche and was originally home to the Swiss National Museum. This institution was finally settled in accordance with the decision of the Federal Assembly in Zurich. Later, the roof structure was changed and renewed the roof. In mid-June of 2009 the extension to the museum was opened ( Kubus / Titan). In early December 2008, the new exhibition hall was inaugurated with a special exhibition on the life and work of the Bernese polymath Albrecht von Haller. Outside the main entrance of the building on the Helvetia Square is the world telegraph memorial.

Exhibition

• 2013: Qin.Der immortal emperor and his terracotta warriors backing the NZZ Publishing House Publisher: Maria Khayutina, ISBN 978-3-03823-813-3.