Treasures of the Collection

The ancient world in its images on coins

2 December 2009 – 16 May 2010

Masterpieces from the coin collection of the Historisches Museum Bern. The Historisches Museum Bern possesses one of the most important collections of ancient coins in Switzerland. A selection of its finest pieces will be shown in the new Cabinet Exhibition in the Museum’s KUBUS extension. The exhibition will focus on the images on coins that in various ways give insights into life in the ancient world. Greek vases and small-scale Roman sculptures from the Museum’s collection supplement the exhibition and permit cross-references between the decorative arts and coins. Computer animations will help explain the small images on coins and make them more readily accessible for the visitor.

Guest exhibition of the Association 300 Years of New Bern
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300 years daughter-city in America
4 December 2009 – 16 May 2010

For the first time the Historisches Museum in Bern (BHM) is placing its new temporary exhibition room in its KUBUS extension at the disposal of an external organizer. Bern’s daughter-city New Bern in North Carolina is celebrating its third centenary in 2010. The Association 300 Years of New Bern is planning to celebrate the jubilee of the earliest Swiss settlement in the USA with a guest exhibition in the BHM’s new Kubus annex. The exhibition leads the public through the history of New Bern in eleven scenes. Themes covered include emigration from Bern in the early eighteenth century and the life of the town’s founder, Christoph von Graffenried. The exhibition will be supplemented by a multimedia show on present-day New Bern.

Further information about the exhibition on www.newbern.ch

Art of the Celts
700 BC to 700 AD
18 June to 18 October 2009
An exhibition of the Historisches Museum in Bern and the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart.

Celtic art is the first important contribution made by the peoples of Northern Europe to European art. This will be the first time that the unique artistic creation of the Celts is celebrated in a comprehensive exhibition.
Masterpieces of Celtic art covering fourteen centuries from its origins in the early 7th century BC to its late blossoming in Irish book illumination in the period round 700 AD will be presented. The exceptional pieces exemplifying this art will be selected from all over Europe, from Scotland to Hungary. The puzzling and highly developed ornamental repertoire of the Celts will be elucidated and made intelligible to the visitor through original archaeological finds, diagrams and computer animations.