Schools

Understanding art is something that must first be learnt.
It is by viewing art that we can delve into the deeper meanings of artworks and try to understand them more thoroughly. Such pastimes promote our powers of perception while enhancing our vocal articulation and creativity. Guided tours not only convey facts but address art in a way relevant to students’ personal experiences and their world.

The Kunstmuseum Bern’s permanent collection comprises artworks from the Middle Ages to the present. The museum focuses on male and female modern artists (Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Picasso among others) as well as Niklaus Manuel, Albert Anker, Ferdinand Hodler, Adolf Wölfli, and Meret Oppenheim.

Additionally, the Kunstmuseum presents a variety of major and smaller-scale temporary exhibitions. The collection and exhibitions deliver many avenues for studying artists’ works, art movements, or thematic foci – such as images of humanity, water, the four seasons, animals, disease, and color.

We provide guided tours for your classes in German, English, or French. 
Although we have many recommendations for students at all levels, we are only too pleased to accommodate any special wishes as well.

Price: CHF 140.00 (CHF 5.00 for any person from the age of 16 and not from the Canton of Bern)
Duration: 1.5 hours
4 for 3: We would like to intensify our engagement with individual classes. Therefore every fourth visit to the Museum of Fine Arts Bern during a school year is free of charge. 

Self-guided school-class tours
Admission for teachers, escorts and students is free (CHF 5.00 for any person from the age of 16 and not from the Canton of Bern). We kindly ask to announce your visit in advance. Please remember that you bear full responsibility for the behavior of your class. If you have any questions we are only too pleased to help.

Further education
For all our major exhibitions we offer further introductory information events to teaching staff. We also advertise further education courses in conjunction with the programs of the PH Bern and the Lernwerk Bern, and organize, for you and fellow teaching staff at your school, further education courses tailored to your needs and interests.

Bookings and information
T + 41 (0)31 328 09 11 (Monday through Thursday 09:00 - 12:00) or

If you send us an email with a notice “information for teaching staff,” we will send you information on a regular basis about our range of events and courses.