Bern Swiss Alpine Museum (4/24/1982)

Saturday, April 24, 1982

Hmm, first pouring rain, then big snowflakes, then the sun. Left with Jan & Kirby to drive to Bern at 14:30 and I was dropped off on one side of a demonstration, for more jobs? Went through the crowd to cross the Kirchenfeldbrücke to the Schweizerisches Alpines Museum/Swiss Alpine Museum. It was in a blah building over the Post, Telefon und Telegraph/Postes, téléphones, télégraphes/PTT Museum.

Swiss Alpine Museum ticket

Paid 1 CHF/50 cents to enter and saw relief maps of glaciers and the Alps, models of refuge huts, info about the Schweizer Alpen-Club/Swiss Alpine Club, display of mountain climbing equipment through history, chronologies of who climbed the Matterhorn, portraits of famous mountaineer guides, display of stuffed Alpine animals, rocks, tree stumps, and a browsing library of picture books. Upstairs there was a temporary display of Fastnacht/Mardi Gras masks, wooden toys and utensils including ornately carved spinning racks, traditional costumes including a male mannequin with a gold filigree earring on which a gold ladle hung, paintings, maps both flat and relief, a display of surveying equipment, aerial photographs with binocular viewers, relief models of Ice Age Switzerland and mountains, and a display of ski equipment through the ages. I easily filled my half hour there and at 16:00 I went back downtown to the movie theater. I saw the restaurant tram that you can rent for events.

Movie ticket

Met Jan & Kirby for the 16:30 movie of “On Golden Pond.” Dinner at Wendy’s afterwards.