Bern History Museum

The Bern Historical museum is an amazing building, built after the style of 18th century castles. at the fountain before the gate to the grounds of the museum, is modified bike pumps for water fight or just explore fluid dynamics. The nozzle was unmounted so that it could point anywhere.
The ticket pricing is a bit odd, with different prices for different exhibit visitation permission. The exhibit called the Einstein museum is the reason for our visit. The temporary exhibit at the time was about the moon landing, and the involvement that Bern and the rest of Switzerland had invested on the Apollo 11 expedition. The university in Bern had created a foil to capture particles emitted by the sun, called the solar wind. There was model of the equipment and parts of the original foil and support structure also. Another element that Switzerland had direct involvement in was the watches worn by the astronauts, they had a copy of the model used on display. Also in that exhibit was a table to demonstrate the pull of gravity and how that can be utilized in space flight. I enjoyed playing with this for some time. You would roll a metal marble down a ramp at a planet and the magnet under it would curve the marbles trajectory. This conception of  gravity could have been included in the area of what discoveries Einstein's papers on relativity caused.
The section of the museum that pointed out the long history that Bern has of housing a Jewish community was a bit of a surprise, in that it was so quickly mentioned and given such proof. Having a part of a tomb stone from the middle ages present. The info on the stone also stated how the Jewish cemetery was separate from the Christian cemetery.
This fit the later content of Einstein's life promoting the creation of a Jewish state or Israel after WWII. The content presented on the destruction of world war II was very heavy, the depictions of the suffering and the inclusion of video proof of the German war crimes, and the room panorama of the bombing of Hiroshima really hit me.
I enjoyed how the museum did not shy away from the failings of Einstein's personal life, having a family tree showing which cousin was his second wife. the inclusion of the letters to his first wife before the marriage during and after. Also the lose contact that he had with is first two sons.