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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,
Cézanne, Braque, Gris, Picasso, Klee and Kandinsky.
Look out, in particular, for Picasso’s Drunken Doze,
a work from his early Blue Period, and Klee’s
Ad Parnassum, a piece produced at a time
when he was fascinated with Pointillism.
Swiss artists, among them Ferdinand Hodler
and Albert Anker, are well represented.
The museum runs public tours on Tuesdays
and Sundays – though only occasionally
in English – and a children’s workshop on
Saturdays and Sundays (once a month in English).

GALLERY GUIDE
The layout of the
Kunstmuseum is quite
simple: its collection
of Old Master paintings
is displayed in the base­
ment, while the 19th­
century paintings
are exhibited on the
ground floor, alongside
temporary exhibitions.
The 20th­century
collect ion, comprising
work by Picasso and
Klee, occupies the
first floor.

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