Scheunen is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[2] The oldest trace of a settlement in the area are Hallstatt era grave mounds at Steinholz and Junkholz.

The settlements that today make up Scheunen were originally the two independent villages of Oberscheunen and Jegenstorf-Scheunen.

Starting in 2007, the municipal clerk in Iffwil assumed responsibility for Scheunen.

After the extinction of the Kyburg family in 1406, Bern acquired the villages and placed them under the court at Zollikofen.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[1] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Or and Gules two Barns in pale counterchanged.

The barns (German: Scheunen) makes this an excellent example of canting arms.

In the federal election, a total of 37 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 64.9%.

[3] There were 35 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.7% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 4, all of which were technical professionals or scientists.

[3] From the 2000 census[update], 54 or 94.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church while there was one person who was Roman Catholic.