ALPS

The Swiss Alpine Museum is a museum focusing on the relationship between mountains and people, culture, and nature in the Swiss Alps. It is located at Helvetiaplatz 4 in Bern. The museum is dedicated to the history and natural science issues of the entire Alpine region. The museum maintains an important collection focusing on cartography, alpinism, and mountain photography with over 220,000 photographs. The Alpine Museum houses one of the largest collections of mountain reliefs. It regularly transfers its knowledge to exhibitions, publications, and events. History In 1902 the Bernese section of the Swiss Alpine Club Club (SAC) decided to appoint a commission to realize the museum with the purpose not only to make the Alps accessible to mountaineers, but also to explore them. In 1905 the Swiss Alpine Museum was opened in the Rathaus zum Äusseren Stand on Zeughausgasse in Bern. 1933–1934 the new museum building was erected on Helvetiaplatz in Bern's Kirchenfeld district. Today it is a listes building as an example for the Neues Bauen style.