On 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 August 2026, admission to our museum is free as part of the ‘Free Museum Entry’ campaign.
Einstein – Medal 2026
Die Albert-Einstein Medaille für das Jahr 2026 wird verliehen an
Prof. Peter Schneider,
Argelander-Institut für Astronomie der Universität Bonn
für seine grundlegenden Beiträge zu verschiedenen Aspekten des Gravitationslinseneffekts und dessen möglichen Beobachtungen.
Opening Hours
Opening Hours
4 February 2026 –
18 December 2026
2027: 1. Feb – 17. Dec
The Einstein House will be open on 1 August 2026
Monday – Sunday
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Last entry 4.45 p.m.
Kramgasse 49
closed
from December 19, 2026
CONTACT
Phone
+41(0)31 312 00 91
E-Mail
aeg(at)einstein-bern.ch
Museums – Nacht BERN
20 März 2026 18:00 – 02:00
Einsteins Wunderjahr 1905 in Bern: Lichtquanten-Hypothese, Atom-Hypothese und Relativitätstheorie
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Jürg Schacher, Physiker
Vortrag: 19:00 und 21:00 Uhr
Alle Vorträge finden im grossen Zunftsaal „Zunft zu Metzgern“, Kramgasse 45 (20 m unterhalb Einstein-Haus), statt. Beschilderung beachten. Einlass zu den Vorträgen 10 Minuten vor Vortragsbeginn und nur mit MuseumsNacht-Ticket (kein Verkauf daselbst).
Dauer ca. 25 Min.
15th October 2025 Award of the
Albert-Einstein-Medal 2025
to Prof. Robert Wald, Univ. of Chicago

Physics
Prof. Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo, Canada, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2018
presented 3 lectures on the topic ‘ Laser physics and optics’
Generating short pulses for making molecular movies
Particle acceleration with intense fiber lasers for medical applications
Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring (GEMM)
A public ceremony will be held to award the Albert Einstein Medal 2024 to Prof. George Efstathiou of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge (KICC), UK.
October 9, 2024
The ceremony will take place during the Physics Colloquium at the University of Bern.
The lecture, entitled “Do we have a standard model of cosmology?”, will commence at 16:15 in Lecture Hall B6 of the Exact Sciences building.
Philosophy
Susan R. Wolf, Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
presented 3 lectures on the topic ‘ Human Selves’
Mathematics
Prof. Maryna Viazovska, EPF Lausanne, (Fields Medal 2022) gave 3 lectures on the topic ‘ Sphere Packings ‘
The sphere packing problem,
The sphere packing problem: The proof
Sphere packings in high dimensions and error correcting codes
Physics
Prof. Didier Queloz, Cambridge University (UK), ETH Zürich gave 3 lectures on the topic ‘Exoplanets’
Planets in Solar System Context,
The Exoplanet Revolution
Exoplanets and Life in the Universe
