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10:00 - 17:00

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  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen's Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2026 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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Today

10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

Café du Château

  • Monday closed

  • Tuesday till Sunday 09:30 - 17:30

Special opening times

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Day 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen's Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • 29.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Labour Day 31.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Day 01.01.2026 closed

  • Berchtold's Day 02.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Good Friday 03.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Sunday 05.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Easter Monday 06.04.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year's Eve 01.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Ascension 14.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whitsun 24.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Whit Monday 25.05.2026 10:00 - 17:00

  • Swiss National Day 01.08.2026 10:00 - 17:00

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The race to tame the Jungfrau

Helmut Stalder

30. October 2025

There was a public fascination in the 19th century with the idea of building a railway to the top of the Jungfrau. A competition launched in the mid-1880s prompted an animated response from the country’s engineers, with each one trying to outdo the other. Adolf Guyer-Zeller cherry-picked their ideas and got rid of the competition. He also opened up the mountain to mass tourism.

Die Station Jungfraujoch - bis heute die höchstgelegene Bahnstation Europas. | © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv

The Federal Council’s ‘Africa year’

Flurina Felix

28. October 2025

In 1994 Federal Councillors and high-ranking officials visited Africa like never before. Their dealings in Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa and Rwanda shine a light on the continent’s varying ties to Switzerland.

1994 pflegte der Bundesrat einen regen Kontakt mit dem afrikanischen Kontinent. Illustration von Marco Heer.

The pursuit of precision in timekeeping

Juri Jaquemet

24. October 2025

The Swiss Post was long responsible for bringing the exact time into households in Switzerland, whether by phone or by radio. Sometimes it also offered a morning wake-up call.

Werbung für den Telefondienst "genaue Zeit" mit der Nummer 161.
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