Kunstmuseum Bern

Works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler and Meret Oppenheim have made the Museum of Fine Arts Bern an institution with an international reputation. At the present time, the constantly growing and evolving collection consists of over 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films.

The roots of the museum’s history reach back to the revolutionary ideas proliferatin towards the end of the 18th century which, in 1809, led to the founding of the State Art Collection in Bern and, in 1879, to the opening of the first museum building.

The Museum of Fine Arts Bern is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection and houses works covering eight centuries.

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Opening 1879

Current exhibitions

Next exhibition(s)

Anecdotes of destiny

28.07.2023 - 07.01.2024

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The exhibition Anecdotes of Destiny presents the artists and works from the collection of Kunstmuseum Bern that have rarely or hardly ever been presented to a larger public. By showing these forgotten, omitted or neglected voices in dialogue with masterpieces of the collection, this exhibition is a way to show that the art history and the collection that we think we know by heart is full of unknown stories that wait to be discovered and told.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E

Markus Raetz. oui non si no yes no

08.09.2023 - 25.02.2024

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The Kunstmuseum Bern is devoting an extensive posthumous retrospective to the artist Markus Raetz, who died in 2020. The exhibition is the first to concentrate on the Swiss artist’s three-dimensional works and mobiles produced in the last years of his life.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F/E
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/E