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Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
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All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Saint Martin 11.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Christmas 25.12.2025 closed
St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Epiphany 06.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Carnival Thursday 12.02.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Carnival Monday 16.02.2026 closed
Shrove Tuesday 17.02.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Saint Joseph 19.03.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Good Friday 03.04.2026 closed
Easter 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Labour Day 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Mother´s Day 10.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Ascension Day 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Corpus Christi 04.06.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Assumption Day 15.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Today

Opening times

Museum

Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00
Monday closed

Special opening times

All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Saint Martin 11.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Christmas 25.12.2025 closed
St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00
New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00
Epiphany 06.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Carnival Thursday 12.02.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Carnival Monday 16.02.2026 closed
Shrove Tuesday 17.02.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Saint Joseph 19.03.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Good Friday 03.04.2026 closed
Easter 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Labour Day 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Mother´s Day 10.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Ascension Day 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Corpus Christi 04.06.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Assumption Day 15.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Switzerland’s first female photographer

Patrick Borer

16. September 2025

Franziska Möllinger was not only the first woman to work as a photographer in Switzerland, she was also a pioneer of the use of photographs as templates for prints. There are only two original photographs by Möllinger in circulation today, the second of which surfaced in 2024.

Plotting Switzerland’s borders: the case of Testa Grigia

Felix Frey

11. September 2025

The construction of an aerial cableway from the Italian town of Breuil to Testa Grigia in 1937 alarmed the federal authorities as the terminus was located in the sensitive Swiss-Italian border area.

The day a king died in Bern

Peter Haenger

9. September 2025

The first King of Iraq died in Bern aged just 48 in September 1933. Who was Faisal I, and how did his early death impact the Hashemite dynasty?

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