Museum of Communication

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.

At the club, on stage, when creating TikTok content or cooking a meal: if we hear a song we like, we all begin to dance! Sometimes we barely notice, but other times the feeling is so intense that we are oblivious to the world around us.

But why do we actually dance? What are the stories that we tell using our bodies? What is it that causes red faces, that attracts, irritates or thrills us when we see people dancing? The exhibition DANCE! will invite us to immerse ourselves in a world of rhythmical movement and allow ourselves to get carried away.

Political cartoonists are masters of overstating the events of the day in a succinct and highly amusing way. It is not unusual for a single drawing to convey the essence of a story better than an elaborate text. Humour affords easier access while the exaggeration helps us to understand which event it is. However – this does not mean that political cartoons are easy to digest. We regularly choke on our laughter, as cartoonists often hold up a mirror to us. Gezeichnet 2024 – Die besten Schweizer Pressezeichnungen des Jahres serves as a platform for this most underrated form of journalism.

The contents are available in German and French.

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? 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!