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Psychiatrie-Museum Bern |
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Bern
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Bern's Museum of Psychiatry is housed in the late Baroque "Pfründerhaus" on the grounds of the former Waldau Clinic (today the University Psychiatric Services UPD Bern).
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The idea of a museum dates as far back as 1914, when Walter Morgenthaler, the Bernese psychiatrist who discovered Adolf Wölfli, assembled an archive devoted to the history, development and contemporary state of psychiatry in his day. The permanent exhibition "Bernese Psychiatry before and after the Construction of the Waldau" is designed as a tour leading from the late Middle Ages to the Reformation era, on to the construction of the "madhouse" (1749) and the foundation of the "Waldau Insane Asylum and Mental Hospital", and finally to the present day university clinic. The subjects of the changing exhibitions are clinic-related; everything on display comes from the museum's own holdings.
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| Opening hours: |
| | Wednesday - Saturday | 14h00 - 17h00 |
| Alternatively, by telephone arrangement |
Admission:
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| | Adults | CHF 10.00 | | Students | CHF 5.00 | | Guided tours | CHF 30.00 | | School classes | CHF 15.00 |
Travel route:
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From railway station bus no. 10 to stop "Waldeck" then RBS bus B to stop "Klinik"
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