Museum for Communication Bern

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Museum of Communication
Museum of Communication Entrance IMG 9742.jpg
Entrance to the Museum of Communication
Data
place Helvetiastrasse 16
3000 Bern
Switzerland Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E ; CH1903:  600 865  /  one hundred and ninety-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-nineWorld icon
Art Telecommunications , post , philately , radio and television
architect Andrea Roost
opening 1893/1990/2017
Number of visitors (annually) 100,000
operator Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications
management Jacqueline Strauss
GLAM CH-000212
KGS 8510 + 651
Website www.mfk.ch

The Museum for Communication at Helvetiastrasse 16 in Bern is the only museum in Switzerland that deals exclusively with the history of communication. It does not focus on technology, but on people.

Access to the Museum of Communication

The administration of the Swiss Federal Post Office (later PTT ) began in 1893 to collect items and documents from the postal and transport sector as well as from philately . In 1907 a postal museum was founded in Bern. From 1949 the building was called the Swiss PTT Museum and the existing collection was expanded with holdings from telecommunications ( telephone and telegraphy ).

In 1990 the museum moved to its current location on Helvetiastrasse. In 1996 it was converted into a foundation, opened thematically and renamed the Museum for Communication . The institution's sponsor is the Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications , which is financed by Swiss Post and Swisscom . The foundation is also responsible for the publicly accessible PTT archive in Köniz .

In 2016, the museum had over 60,000 visitors up to the start of the renovation in mid-August, which translates into more than 85,000 visitors. In the first year after the revision of the exhibitions (opening: August 2017) over 120,000 visitors visited the museum.

From 2015 onwards, the "chamber exhibition" called "Drawn" took place in the museum at the turn of the year, an annual review in caricatures .

In 2019, the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the Museum of Communication the Council of Europe Museum Prize . The jury highlighted the successful concept of the communicators and the dynamic exhibition content.

See also

Web links

Commons : Museum for Communication Bern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helvetiastrasse 16. (PDF; 1.8 MB) In: bauinventar.bern.ch. City of Bern , accessed on February 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The history of the Museum of Communication. In: mfk.ch. Museum of Communication, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ From the Bundesratsselfie to the pneumatic tube. Der Bund online, August 16, 2017, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Museum for Communication wins European Museum Prize 2019. Museum for Communication, December 7, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The year 2016 in brief. (PDF; 444 KB) In: Annual Report 2016. Museum for Communication, May 5, 2017, p. 20 , accessed on February 17, 2018 (p. 17 visits: short year, big rush - projection 85,000).
  6. ↑ Museum for Communication wins European Museum Prize 2019. Museum for Communication, December 7, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Museum for Communication - The year 2015 in brief , press release
  8. ↑ The year 2017 in caricatures , SRF Tagesschau, December 14, 2017
  9. ^ PACE: News. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Museum for Communication wins European Museum Prize 2019 (PDF) Museum for Communication, December 7, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2018 .