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KUNSTMUSEUM
B3 ⌂ Hodlerstrasse 8–12 # 10am–9pm Tue, 10am–5pm Wed–Sun
∑ kunstmuseumbern.ch
Housing over 3,000 paintings, and 48,000 other items including
EXPERIENCE Bern drawings, prints and photographs, Bern’s Museum of Fine Arts
is Switzerland’s oldest art museum with a permanent collection
and the perfect place to explore centuries of world-class art.
Spanning the 14th to the 20th centuries, the Kunstmuseum’s constantly
evolving collection includes Early Renaissance paintings, 16th- and 17th-century
Old Master paintings, and 19th- and 20th-century French
paintings, including works by Delacroix, Manet, Monet,
The Münster’s tower and spire, piercing Cézanne, Braque, Gris, Picasso, Klee and Kandinsky.
the sky above Bern’s quaint Old Town
The central stained- Look out, in particular, for Picasso’s Drunken Doze,
glass panel in the choir a work from his early Blue Period, and Klee’s
depicts Christ’s Passion Ad Parnassum, a piece produced at a time
The nave culminates and Crucifixion. when he was fascinated with Pointillism.
in the stained-glass Swiss artists, among them Ferdinand Hodler
windows of the choir. and Albert Anker, are well represented.
The museum runs public tours on Tuesdays
and Sundays – though only occasionally
GREAT VIEW
The Tower in English – and a children’s workshop on
Fortune favours the brave. Saturdays and Sundays (once a month in English).
For a small fee, you can
climb up the 344 steps
that scale the cathedral’s
tower to the lookout point,
which perches high above
the entrance. The reward
is fantastic views, spilling
over the rooftops of the city
across to the snow-covered
mountains of the distant
Bernese Oberland.
GALLERY GUIDE
The layout of the
Kunstmuseum is quite
simple: its collection
of Old Master paintings
Flying buttressess
transmit the weight is displayed in the base
of the roof outwards ment, while the 19th
and downwards to century paintings
the outer walls. are exhibited on the
ground floor, alongside
temporary exhibitions.
The rib vaulting, by The 20thcentury
Daniel Heintz, dates collect ion, comprising
from the 1570s. work by Picasso and
The figures of the Foolish Klee, occupies the
Virgins standing on the first floor.
left side of the main doors
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