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Kunstmuseum was founded in 1879, and it is the oldest art museum in Switzerland, which has a permanent collection. Among the treasures of the museum are exhibits dating back to the Middle Ages to the present day; the collection covers a period of 8 centuries. Here exhibited works of Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Holder, Meret Oppenheim and Ricco Wassmer. The total number of exhibits exceeds 3000 - and this is only paintings and sculptures. In addition, the museum owns almost 50,000 drawings, prints, photographs, film and video records.

Among the treasures of the Bern Art Museum are exhibits dating back to the Middle Ages to the present day; the collection covers the period of 8 centuries

The beginning of the museum collection was laid back at the dawn of the 19th century, and the first exhibits were copies of antique sculptures acquired by the Higher School of Painting. Together with the collection of watercolors and drawings, the collection was placed in the building of the present main building of the museum, specially built by architect Eugene Stettler in 1878. Further growth of the museum demanded expansion in the 30s. 20 century, and in the 80's. The third building of the museum also opened:

2014 . became special for the museum: almost 1500 works were found attached to the meeting, found at the Munich art opening . In 2012 . a lot of pictures that were supposedly captured by the Nazis during the Second World War, was discovered by Cornelius Gurlitt . Many of these works were considered irretrievably lost . Among them were the masterpieces of Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Eugene Delacroix, Albrecht Durer, Edward Munch, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Toulou -Lotreka, Otto Dixa . Two years later, after the death of Gurlitt, the Berne Museum of Fine Arts received these paintings as the sole heir by his will .

One of the newest exhibitions, included in the permanent exhibition of the museum, is the installation of Yves Netzhamer , a modern artist who raises in his work the themes of interrelations between people, nature and the objects of our world in general. The installation combines objects and their reflections in the mirror walls, video projections of the transformation of people, animals and plants, as well as musical accompaniment with a complex soundtrack written specifically for the exhibition.

Address and time of work

Address: Hodlerstrasse, 8-12.

Working hours: from 10:00 to 21:00 on Tuesday and from 10:00 to 17:00 from Wednesday to Sunday (Monday - the day off).