The museum houses one of the country’s most important ethnographic collections together with the Bernese historical artefacts 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. The historical collection is an ideal key to the history of Bern, a city that was once the most powerful city-state north of the Alps.

Museum: Museum of History Bern
City: Bern
Country: Switzerland
Address: Helvetiaplatz 5
Website: http://www.bhm.ch