Psychiatry Museum
Psychiatrie Museum, Bolligenstrasse 111, Im Areal Waldau, Bern 60 3000
Phone: +41 (0)31 930 97 56 - Fax: +41 (0)31 930 99 77
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The Psychiatry Museum is an unusual, but fascinating, place, located in the late Baroque ‘Pfründerhaus’ in the grounds of the former Waldau Clinic, which is now the University Psychiatric Services department. Walter Morgenthaler (1864-1965) was the Bernese psychiatrist who discovered the prolific Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), a patient suffering from psychosis. He also assembled an archive relating to the history of his profession and in 1914 conceived the idea of a museum. The exhibition takes the visitor from treatment in medieval days to the present, including the construction of a 1749 ‘madhouse’ and the work of the Waldau clinic.
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