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Historisches Museum Bern

Characteristics
History

The Historisches Museum in Bern was built by the Neuchâtel architect André Lambert in 1894.

Organization

The Historisches Museum in Bern encloses the Einstein Museum. Albert Einstein's life an work are shown in the historical context of the twentieth century.

Inventory

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:

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Opening times:
Tues-Sun: 10.00–17.00

Postal address
Postfach
Helvetiaplatz 5
3005
Bern
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 31 350 77 11
Fax: 
+41 31 350 77 99
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
11.08.2010

State Archives of Canton Bern - Online Inventory

This online inventory of the archives of Canton Bern offers full-text search, search by specific field and navigation through the hierarchical structure of the archives.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/xml - *.xml - XMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
06.05.2010
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DigiBern - Bernese Culture and History on the Web

Characteristics
History

Digibern has been online since 2002.

Inventory

DigiBern is a web offer by the University Library of Berne and includes digitized texts and maps pertaining to the history and culture of Berne city and the canton of Berne.

Remarks: 

Digibern is freely available worldwide to scholars and the public (open access).

Postal address
Universitätsbibliothek Bern Direktion
Münstergasse 61
3008
Bern
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 31 631 92 03
Fax: 
+41 31 631 92 99
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
14.06.2010

IDS Basel Bern Catalog

The online catalogue of the library network of Basel and Bern contains more than 5 million titles coming from 200 libraries of the colleges of higher education of Basel and of Bern.
The following handwritten funds and archives are also listed in the catalogue IDS Basel Bern: In Basel: Archives given to the university library, Bernoulli editions, Swiss economic archives; in Bern: Gosteli archive and Rorschach archive.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
01.06.2010
Referenced by
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