The platform for Alpine themes

At the ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum, it’s all about people and mountains. The museum addresses how the mountain world is changing due to climate change, spatial development, and tourism, and how the urban and alpine worlds coexist – far beyond the Alpine arc. At ALPS, you will find a main exhibition spread over two floors, regular surprises in the "Biwak" space, the Lost and Found Memories Office where you can participate, and a rich program of events. ALPS maintains a collection of alpine cultural assets, has its own restaurant and shop, and is part of the Museumsquartier Bern.

ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum
Greenland
Everything changes
until Su, 16.08.2026

Rapidly melting ice sheets, booming tourism, three new airports under construction, ever-larger waste heaps, international investors in search of mineral resources, and a confident Greenland developing its Indigenous identity and independence. Greenland’s transformation is intense, turbulent, and contradictory. But what do the people there think of it all? What does this teach us about the world we live in? How do we deal with the dilemmas and contradictions? What scares us about it and what opportunities are at stake? This moving film installation is accompanied by an original Greenlandic soundtrack.

 

snow globe
ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum
Souvenir
Selfies, Kitsch and Crystals
until Su, 09.01.2028

Whether a selfie, postcard, stone or magnet – souvenirs preserve memories of our mountain journeys. The new exhibition at the Lost and Found Memories Office puts these mementos and their stories centre stage. This participatory format invites visitors to share their own souvenirs from mountain trips. Whether kitsch or status symbol – we're interested in what you bring back and what your souvenirs remind you of. With this new edition of the Lost and Found Memories Office, the ALPS tourism collection is expanded and various perspectives on current tourism questions are discussed.

 

Picknick on the Sustenpass
ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum
A Great Day Out
Through the Rearview Mirror
until Su, 08.11.2026

The car is as much a part of 20th-century leisure culture as the Tremola is to the Gotthard Pass. Sunday trips to the countryside, picnics at the top of the pass, or a holiday drive down south – the mass production of small cars satisfied a new appetite for mobility and created personal freedom.

 

'A Great Day Out' uses amateur film footage to recount the unclouded joy of car journeys and mountain pass excursions from the 1920s to the 1980s, when even a traffic jam was still an experience in itself. The film material comes mainly from private collections in the canton of Ticino. The films tell their stories through moving, sometimes jerky images – without words, yet deeply evocative. Sit back in your car seat and immerse yourself in the film collage.


An exhibition in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del San Gottardo.