Bern Communication Museum (Museum fuer Kommunikation)

The Bern Museum of Communications, also known as the Museum fuer Kommunikation, is one of the world's largest collections of precious postage stamps. Originally located in the Swiss capital Bern, the museum was built in 1907 as a postal museum and was only housed in the headquarters building. It is the third postal museum in the world after Berlin and Vienna. After 1949, the Postal Museum was renamed the Swiss Postal Museum. It was rebuilt and put into use on June 22, 1990, and renamed as the Communication Museum on January 1, 1997.

Venue distribution

The museum is roughly divided into four main areas, except for the collection departments that are not open to the public and belong to specific research rooms:

Postal Historical Area: The exhibition mainly displays various land, water, and air postal equipment operated by the ancient Prussian Tasses and Fessel families in Switzerland, as well as postal staff's clothing, letter sorting facilities, historical materials, pictures, etc. since the establishment of modern public postal services in Switzerland in 1948.

Postal and Telecommunications Business Area: It showcases the development history and related equipment of postal and telecommunications business, such as early telegraph machines, telephones, etc., as well as the operational processes and technological applications of modern postal and telecommunications business.

Telecommunications equipment area: displays various telecommunications equipment from ancient to modern times, including early wireless radios, telephone exchanges, fax machines, etc., allowing viewers to understand the continuous progress of telecommunications technology.

Philatelic Exhibition Area: It is the most popular place for philatelists to visit, with a total of 45 cabinets, each containing 50 pages of stickers. It houses 2 million exquisite stamps from various countries around the world, which are commemorative or have special significance. Its collection of precious stamps ranks among the top in all postal museums around the world.