Museum of Communication

Hilltop fires, smartphones and cyborgs

More direct access than ever before: besides interactive displays, surprising objects and large-scale video screens, visitors to the Museum of Communication will now also be introduced to the fascinating world of communication by people made of flesh and blood, by our communicators.
A stagecoach, microchip implants or an original getaway car used in the robbery of the century? The new core exhibition examines all forms of communication, which has always connected human beings. But why do we communicate? And who do we communicate with? The exhibition explores these fundamental questions in a playful manner whilst calling on its visitors to contribute their expert thoughts.
You can take part in a game of film karaoke and re-enact famous scenes, you can breach your opponent’s firewall in a hacking game – you can try something different every time you visit the museum.

You see a boy opening one of the two doors of a mini house and smiling at the camera. In a round window hole between the doors, you see another boy sitting and building a tower out of wooden blocks.

Find Ratatösk

until Mo, 19.08.2030

Ratatösk? This name is not made up: it is the name of the squirrel in Nordic mythology, where it is a communicator – carrying messages on the world tree. This is how the dragon at the foot of the tree and the eagle in the crown are able to communicate with each other.

The cheeky mascot has been hidden in 12 locations in the museum. Children will find exciting games everywhere you see his picture.

A tree with many peepholes and a paternoster lift form the end of ‘Find Ratatösk’. The tree is home to 35 Ratatösks made in the 2016/2017 school year by pupils from the Lorraine School in Bern. This participation project is carried out every year with a different school.

Museum of Communication

NOTHING

until Su, 21.07.2024

Is it possible that nothing is not nothing after all? The exhibition NOTHING goes all out to show the seemingly inane. The small things in our everyday lives that are not visible, material or tangible.

They seem to appear from nowhere, only to disappear again. By no means a conjuring trick, they are nonetheless wonderfully surprising encounters with something that is more than nothing.

Museum of Communication

Dance!

Fr, 08.11.2024 – Su, 20.07.2025

You see an exhibition room in bluish light with boxes on the wall and a brain made of fabric hanging from the ceiling. Four people, a woman, a man and two children are in the room, each holding an audio guide to their ear.

Museum of Communication

Hilltop fires, smartphones and cyborgs

The core exhibition

Permanent exhibition

A stagecoach, microchip implants or an original getaway car used in the robbery of the century? The new core exhibition examines all forms of communication, which has always connected human beings. But why do we communicate? And who do we communicate with? What is required for us to understand each other? The exhibition explores these fundamental questions in a playful manner whilst calling on its visitors to contribute their expert thoughts.

Numerous newly developed points of adventure await you. You can take part in a game of film karaoke and re-enact famous scenes, you can breach your opponent’s firewall in a hacking game or you can have a go at seeing through the data octopus’s game – you can try something different every time you visit the museum. At some point in the 2000 square metres of the exhibition you will surely meet one of our communicators. They will make each visit a personal and individual experience. How? Let us surprise you!