This section contains an overview of the most relevant exhibitions in Switzerland and neighbouring regions. Each item is connected to the organizing museum.
Johann Peter Flück (1902–1954) was on of the best Swiss portrait painters of his time. The exhibitions shows around 40 works of his most successful period, the 1940’s and 1950’s. His Passion of Jezus is also famous and is dispalyed as well.
The young British woman Jemima Morrell and three other women of their Alpine Club climbed the highest mountains in France and Switzerland in 1863. Jemima wrote a diary that was only rediscovered in 1963. The exhibition tells the story of this remarkable enterprise of four your women. As one of the first package tourists, they discovered Switzerland and the Alps in 1863. The exhibition also shows the beginning of the mountain enthusiasm.
The exhibition imparts background information to the panorama of Thun in four sections. The main protagonist and creator of the panorama, Marquard Wocher, is presented in the first place. Who was he, who undertook the painting of the first cyclorama of Switzerland? Where and how was the panorama of Thun created and what is the meaning of the term “panorama”? Playfully and diversely the exhibition illuminates the background story of the oldest surviving cyclorama in the world. Pictures, sketches, notes, objects and digital reconstructions guide the visitors through the various rooms.