Alpines Museum der Schweiz

Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau mountains are only a stone’s throw from Bern. The only place being closer to the mountains is the Swiss Alpine Museum (alps). The unique site presents home exhibitions on current mountain issues from all over the world in an unconventional way. They are complemented by the experimental bivouac, the museum’s shop and the alpine cuisine at the in-house restaurant of «las alps».

This museum greets you in the following languages: D/F/E
Opening 1905

Current exhibitions

Lost and Found Memories Office №2: Women on the Mountain

04.12.2021 - 01.10.2023

Frauen sind schon immer genau so begeistert, so virtuos und unerschrocken auf Berge gestiegen wie Männer. Nur wurde das lange Zeit kaum dokumentiert. Das Fundbüro für Erinnerungen № 2 will dies ändern: Das partizipative Projekt nimmt rund vierzig «Frauen am Berg» aus der Sammlung des Alpinen Museums und die Bergerinnerungen heutiger Alpinistinnen und Kletterinnen in den Blick: ob Reisebericht oder Gipfelselfie – uns interessiert, was Frauen in den Bergen erleben, denken, leisten.

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

Heimat. Tracing the Story of Mitholz

19.11.2022 - 30.06.2024

Mitholz has been dealt a double blow: in 1947 a military ammunition depot exploded in this unassuming village in the Bernese Oberland. In 2020 the Swiss Federal Council decided to retrieve the munitions that remained entombed in the mountain and have the residents leave their homes for ten years. In its next major exhibition, the Swiss Alpine Museum will accompany the people of Mitholz as they come to terms with the issues.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/F

Next exhibition(s)

Biwak#32: Fictions subsoil

01.07.2023 - 03.09.2023

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Exhibition for the SAC Art Award for Fragmentin. For Biwak#32, the young Lausanne artists' collective Fragmentin travels into an imagined future: they analyse the underground, recover an ice core and make unexpected discoveries. The exhibition "Fictions subsoil" at the Swiss Alpine Museum offers a critical look at the way we deal with the remains of obsolete cables and pipes in the ground.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D