Musée Einstein, museum in Switzerland

The Musée Einstein occupies part of the Bernisches Historisches Museum, a stone building with a tall conical spire roofed in dark brown shingles rising from a cylindrical tower, a steep gray slate roof with a smaller spire, and a glass section through which a colorful mural is visible. Inside, over 200 objects are shown across 1000 square metres, with an audio guide in nine languages.

The Einstein Museum opened as a temporary exhibition at the Bern Historical Museum for the 2005 World Year of Physics, drawing attention from Switzerland and abroad, and became a permanent exhibition there in 2007. It occupies 1,000 square metres with more than 200 objects. Einstein himself lived in Bern from 1902 to 1909 and published three major papers in 1905; his former flat at Einstein House is a separate memorial in the Old Town.

The museum honors the physicist whose work shaped Bern's place in scientific history. Personal objects and documents on display reveal how he lived as a person and how his ideas took root in this city.

The museum occupies 1,000 square metres inside the Bernisches Historisches Museum, not the Old Town, so allow time to walk there from the centre. Audio guides are offered in nine languages, Japanese among them. The separate Einstein House, his 1903–1905 flat, is in the Old Town and must be visited on its own.

The museum occupies 1,000 square metres of the Bern Historical Museum and holds more than 200 objects; an audio guide is offered in nine languages, Japanese among them. Einstein himself lived elsewhere in Bern: his family flat of 1903 to 1905 is run separately as the Einstein House in the Old Town.