Collecting friends
8.6. – 18.8.2019
The supporting association is 60 years old. This will be celebrated with the jubilee project Collecting friends. A project of the Supporting Association of Kunstmuseum Thun on the occasion...more
AESCHLIMANN-CORTI-SCHOLARSHIP
8.6. – 18.8.2019
Every year, the Bernese Art Society BKG awards the Louise Aeschlimann and Margareta Corti Scholarship. It is the biggest private scholarship for visual artists awarded every year since...more
THUN-PANORAMA
THE OLDEST CYCLORAMA OF THE WORLD
1.3. – 1.12.2019
The artist Marquard Wocher of Basel created the first panorama in Switzerland in 1814. Fascinated by the Bernese Oberland, he composed a cyclorama measuring 38 metres in length, depicting...more
360°
A PERMANENT EXHIBITION ON MARQUARD WOCHER‘S PANORAMA
1.3. – 1.12.2019
The permanent exhibition 360° imparts background information to the panorama in four sections: The “main protagonist” of the panorama, the artist Marquard Wocher, is...more
Visual wonders. Trickery, deception & illusion
5.5. – 1.12.2019
Humans have been fascinated by optical illusions for hundreds of years. Garden-shed inventors dupe their audience with trickery and deception and use their amazing viewing devices to...more