Museum of Communication looks back on a successful 2011
Just under 61,000 people visited the Bern Museum of Communication last year. That figure is slightly lower than the previous year’s, but higher than the long-term average, the museum’s operators explained on Tuesday at the annual media briefing.
The temporary exhibitions on cell phones and the dangers of communication have met with great interest, as have the three permanent exhibitions. The exhibition "Warning: Communicating at risk", which deals with the flood of communication, can be seen until mid-July.
From the fall, the museum will be offering "Insight into the Thorberg myth". The chamber exhibition about everyday life in the Thorberg prison will be shown alongside the release of a documentary film by Dieter Fahrer. The exhibition installation is intended to give an idea of the isolation in the cell, where a TV becomes a window on the world.
Together with the Natural History Museum, the museum is also working on the temporary exhibition "Am I beautiful?", which will be on display from next November. Humans, animals and the environment are to be staged under the aspect of the eternal theme of "beauty".
Museum officials also announced that construction work on the renovation of the depot in Schwarzenburg will begin this spring. As is well known, the museum maintains a depot for storing cultural assets on the premises of the former shortwave transmitter.
According to the museum, structural defects make the renovation necessary. This will cost 3.6 million francs and is scheduled to last until the end of 2014. The old outdoor hall will be replaced first, then the depot rooms in the former shortwave transmitter will be renovated. (SDA)
