Swiss Alpine Museum

The museum maintains an important collection focusing on cartography, alpinism, and mountain photography with over 220,000 photographs.

In 1905 the Swiss Alpine Museum was opened in the Rathaus zum Äusseren Stand on Zeughausgasse in Bern.

These exhibitions are focused on the various approaches and perspectives on the topics, which are constantly being explored anew, not only dealing with natural-historical and geographical aspects but also cultural, social, art-related, and especially present-oriented views and sensitivities.

Since March 2012, the ground floor has housed the restaurant "las alps", which offers specialties from the Alpine regions, and a newly designed museum shop.

Since June 2021 has formed the organizational framework for cooperation between cultural and educational institutions between Helvetiaplatz and Kirchenfeldstrasse.