Museum of Communication
- Visit: 2–3 hours
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Why go
- Andrea Roost’s purpose-built museum building stands on Helvetiastrasse in Kirchenfeld.
- The museum’s interactive concept and staff communication earned the 2019 Council of Europe Museum Prize.
Plan your visit
Prices
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Opening hours
Today10:00 – 17:00Show all
Don't miss
- Dialogue with museum communicatorsThey explain exhibition themes and encourage visitors to exchange ideas with them and one another.In the exhibitions
Know before you go
- Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00–17:00.
What's inside
- The postal and transport collection includes material about travel and tourism; Morse devices are among the technology collection’s oldest objects.
- The collection includes communication-related contemporary art, Swiss-focused mail art, and computers tracing computing from the mid-20th century to today.
- Temporary exhibitions explore communication’s social and cultural effects and unexpected aspects.
- About 60,000 photographs are available through the museum’s online database.
- A museum shop and Café Pavillon are under the same roof.
With kids
- The permanent exhibition presents communication playfully, with displays designed to be easy to understand.
Tips for your visit
- Allow around 2–3 hours for a visit.
- Buying a museum ticket online gives you a discount code for a Publibike Day Pass.
Interesting facts4
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1,500 phones
The telephony collection contains more than 1,500 phones, from early models to touchscreen smartphones.
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192 member
The stamp collection contains about three million stamps, including issues supplied to the World Postal Union by its 192 member states.
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500,000 photographs
The holdings include 500,000 photographs and 5,000 videos and films.
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The museum maintains four preserved automatic switchboards in their original buildings.
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History
- 1883–1896The initial collection included postal uniforms, exhibition items and a small stamp collection.
- 1907The Post Museum opened in Bern’s main post office at Bollwerk as Swiss Post’s company museum.
- 1933It moved to the basement of the Swiss Alpine Museum at Helvetiaplatz.
- 1949The Post Museum took the name PTT Museum.
- 1990The museum moved into its purpose-built building on Helvetiastrasse in Kirchenfeld.
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- 1997It became an independent foundation involving Swiss Post and Swisscom and adopted its current name.
- 1999The former shortwave transmitter in Schwarzenburg became a storage depot for the museum.
- 2000A building expansion began, adding an event room, cafeteria and shop.
- 2003The first section of a three-part permanent exhibition opened as “Adventures in Communication.”
- 2007Two more permanent exhibition sections opened, covering computers and digital culture, and stamps.
- 17 August 2017The redesigned permanent exhibition reopened after a year-long renovation.
How to get there
- TramFrom Bern railway station, take tram 6, 7 or 8 to Helvetiaplatz, then walk about 300 metres along Helvetiastrasse past the Historical Museum. From late August to mid-October 2026, replacement buses serve routes 7 and 8, while tram 6 is suspended between Bern railway station and Egghölzli.
- ParkingThe museum is at Helvetiastrasse 16, Bern. It has no parking facilities.
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- Website
- mfk.ch/
- Phone
- +41 31 357 55 55
Questions and answers
Is there parking at the Museum of Communication in Bern?
The museum has no parking facilities.
Can I explore photographs online from the Museum of Communication?
About 60,000 photographs are available through the museum’s online database.
Does the Museum of Communication collect art?
It has collected communication-related contemporary art since 1998 and mail art since 1990, with a focus on Swiss works.
Is the PTT Archive at the Museum of Communication?
No. The archive is housed in Köniz near Bern.
What period does the Museum of Communication’s computer collection cover?
It traces computing from the mid-20th century to today.
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