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  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Christmas 25.12.2023 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2024 closed

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Epiphany 06.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Carnival Thursday 08.02.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Carnival Monday 12.02.2024 closed

  • Shrove Tuesday 13.02.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Saint Joseph 19.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Good Friday 29.03.2024 closed

  • Easter 31.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Easter Monday 01.04.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Mother´s Day 12.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Corpus Christi 30.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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Opening times

Museum

  • openinghours.days.long.tuesday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Christmas 25.12.2023 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2024 closed

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Epiphany 06.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Carnival Thursday 08.02.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Carnival Monday 12.02.2024 closed

  • Shrove Tuesday 13.02.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Saint Joseph 19.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Good Friday 29.03.2024 closed

  • Easter 31.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Easter Monday 01.04.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Mother´s Day 12.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Corpus Christi 30.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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The Klus affair

Adrian Baschung

27. November 2023

In the autumn of 1632, Solothurn and Bern came within a whisker of going to war. A last-minute trade-off averted an escalation. A bloody tale from the Thirty Years’ War.

In autumn 1632, the cantons of Bern and Solothurn clashed between Oensingen and Balsthal. Illustration by Marco Heer

From Vesuvius to Moscow – without leaving Switzerland

André Perler

23. November 2023

Sibirie, Afrika, Le Brésil, Himalaia – as toponyms go, none of these place names sounds particularly Swiss. And yet they are all to be found right here in Switzerland, where an estimated several hundred such ‘exotic’ names have been borrowed from elsewhere.

The whole wide world reflected in Swiss place names. Illustration by Marco Heer.

The energy source from the moors

Reto Bleuer

21. November 2023

The threat of an energy shortage is nothing new to Switzerland, where demand has repeatedly exceeded supply over the years. However, one energy source that has always proved especially popular in times of crisis is now off limits – peat.

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