Museums - Historisches Museum Bern

Originally conceived as the Swiss Landesmuseum (National Museum), Bern's Historisches Museum was designed by Neuchâtel architect André Lambert in 1894. After the city of Zürich was subsequently chosen as the location for the Landesmuseum, only the main building of the original design for Bern was constructed. It now houses Switzerland's second largest historical museum, combining collections in Swiss archaeology, European art and history, world ethnography, and numismatics that together total some 250,000 objects. The ethnographic collections include objects from South, Southeast, and East Asia, as well as the Americas, Oceania, and Egypt.