The Historisches Museum combines an important ethnographic collections together with the Bernese historical collections from prehistory to the present day. The museum's holdings comprise some 250,000 objects. The Burgundian tapestries, the Königsfeld Diptych, the bronze hydria from Grächwil, as well as a series of ethnographic and numismatic collections, enjoy international fame.
Besides the special exhibitions the museum shows also the following permanent exhibitions:

• Stone Age, Celts and Romans
• From the Early Middle Ages to the Ancien Régime
• Burgundian Tapestries
• Bern’s Silver Treasure
• Bern and the 20th century
• Art from Asia and Oceania
• American Indians – Diversity of Cultures in America
• Treasures form the tombes of ancient Egypte
• Einstein Museum

The CERN Archive is a repository for records about all aspects of CERN's history, from 1954 until the present day. It includes files of letters, memos, reports, notes and other documents created or received in the course of their duties by former Directors-General and other senior staff, by the CERN Council and subordinate Committees, and by CERN Divisions, and selected Experiments and Committees. In addition to the CERN fonds, it also contains the Wolfgang Pauli Archive: a collection of correspondence, manuscripts and other material representing the scientific legacy of Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Laureate, 1945).
The CERN Archive guide presents an overview of all the collections in the CERN Archive.

The Centre for the History of Knowledge (ZGW) is a scientific centre of excellence of the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich that aims to promote and coordinate cultural, historical and philosophical research and teaching on modern knowledge systems and knowledge societies.

The contents deal primarily with the topic of transport and mobility in Switzerland and its surrounding area. The archive and library document the transport operators, their technical development, manufacturers as well as operators and their direct impact on the environment.