About us
Works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler and Meret Oppenheim have made the Kunstmuseum Bern an institution with an international reputation. At the present time, the constantly growing and evolving collection consists of over 4,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 50,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films.
The roots of the museum’s history reach back to the revolutionary ideas proliferating towards the end of the 18th century which, in 1809, led to the founding of the State Art Collection in Bern and, in 1879, to the opening of the first museum building.
The Kunstmuseum Bern is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection and houses works covering eight centuries.
