Bern Historical Museum

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Bern Historical Museum
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Front view of the museum
Data
place Helvetiaplatz 5
3005 Bern
Switzerland Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 34.8 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 57.6 ″  E ; CH1903:  600814  /  199100World icon
Art Museum of cultural history
architect André Lambert
opening 1894
Number of visitors (annually) 73,000 (2016)
operator The museum is supported by the canton of Bern, the civic community of Bern, the city of Bern and the Bern-Mittelland regional conference.
management Thomas Pauli-Gabi
GLAM CH-000194
ISIL CH-001990-9
KGS 627 + 8508
Website www.bhm.ch
Extension (photo 2011)

The Bernisches Historisches Museum on Helvetiaplatz in Bern is the second largest cultural and historical museum in Switzerland .

collection

The Bernisches Historisches Museum has extensive collections on prehistory and early history in the canton of Bern, the history of the city and the canton of Bern, as well as an important ethnographic collection, the basis of which it received in 1873 from a donation from the archaeologist Gustav von Bonstetten . Worth mentioning are the Burgundy tapestries , which were taken from the Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold during the Burgundian Wars . The fragments of the so-called Bern sculpture find, recovered in 1986, are among the attractions of the museum. The museum owns a total of 500,000 objects. From 1954 to January 2009, a branch of the museum was housed in Oberhofen Castle.

In 1914 Henri Moser donated his very extensive "Oriental Henri Moser Charlottenfels Collection" with the obligation to maintain and exhibit it. To make this possible, the museum also received a foundation for an extension. This collection has not been on display for decades and the corresponding rooms are used differently.

Staircase in the Einstein Museum

In 2005 the Einstein Museum was established in the museum.

Building history

The building was erected from the end of 1892 to 1894 in the Bernese Kirchenfeld district in the historicism style according to the plans of André Lambert by Eduard von Rodt and Paul Adolphe Tièche and was originally intended to house the Swiss National Museum. This facility was finally located in Zurich in accordance with the decision of the Federal Assembly . Later the roof construction was changed and the roof skin renewed. In mid-June 2009 the extension to the museum (Kubus / Titan) was opened. At the beginning of December 2008, the new exhibition hall was inaugurated with a special exhibition on the life and work of the Bernese polymath Albrecht von Haller . The World Telegraph Monument stands in front of the main entrance to the building on Helvetiaplatz .

Directors

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 1982: faces. Greek and Roman portraits in Swiss possession
  • 2003: Of war and peace. Bern and the Confederates
  • 2008: Charles the Bold
  • 2009: Art of the Celts
  • 2013: Qin - The immortal emperor and his terracotta warriors
  • 2014: The Pfahlbauer - On the water and over the Alps. As part of this temporary exhibition, the artifacts found on the Schnidejoch were exhibited for the first time from April 3 to October 26, 2014.
  • 2017/18: 1968 Switzerland
  • 2019–2021: Homo migrans. Two million years on the move (through January 31, 2021)

literature

  • Bernisches Historisches Museum (Ed.): 100 Years of the Bernisches Historisches Museum - 1894–1994. Bern 1994.
  • Anne-Marie Biland: Bernisches Historisches Museum Architekturführer (= Swiss Art Guide Vol. 549/550). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1994, ISBN 3-85782-549-9 .
  • François de Capitani, Stefan Rebsamen: Historical Museum Bern. With a contribution by Ernst J. Kläy and a foreword by Georg Germann, Bern 1985.

Web links

Commons : Bernisches Historisches Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b architecture. A “museum palace”. In: bhm.ch. Burgergemeinde Bern , accessed on February 12, 2018 : "Our main building was built between 1892 and 1894 according to the plans of André Lambert"
  2. ↑ The museum is again called the Bernisches Historisches Museum (see http://www.bhm.ch ); Bernisches Historisches Museum , Commercial Register of the Canton of Bern, accessed on October 15, 2011.
  3. ↑ Changes compared to postcard 1914 ( Memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Tagesschau (SRF) main edition on April 2, 2014 on SRF 1
  5. ↑ Schnidejoch glacier finds exhibited for the first time . The federal government . April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.