Bern Historical Museum

This museum is one of Switzerland's most important history museums. Its collection is a cultural repository of the history of Bern and the world. Since the museum's foundation in 1889, its collections in history, archaeology, ethnography and numismatics have steadily grown to contain more than half a million objects. The museum's castle and modern annexe house an exhibition on the life and work of the world-famous physicist as well as historical, archaeological and ethnographical collections ⁹.