Zentrum Paul Klee

Canton of Berne · Switzerland

Zentrum Paul Klee, Switzerland
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Year-round
Budget
$$
Accessibility
wheelchair-accessible
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On the eastern edge of Bern, this museum devoted to the painter Paul Klee occupies a building of three undulating steel arches designed by Renzo Piano to echo the surrounding hills. It holds the world's largest collection of Klee's work, shown in rotating displays because much of it is light-sensitive. Beyond the galleries there is a children's creative studio, a concert hall and a research archive. Wildflower meadows run alongside the arches, blurring the line between architecture and landscape.

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