Things to see and do Biel

In 2012, this new museum was created by the merger of the Schwab and Neuhaus museums of history, art and archaeology. The permanent archaeology exhibition of the Schwab Museum was transferred to Neuhaus, while the temporary exhibitions are now housed in the former building. The permanent exhibitions focus on the city's watchmaking past, the painter and writer brothers Karl and Robert Walser, and 19th-century bourgeois life.

Founded in 1990 in the former Biel City Hospital, the Centre d'art Pasquart programs innovative temporary exhibitions of contemporary art and film screenings around this theme. The museum boasts a collection of over 1,800 works by 130 artists, including Clare Goodwin, Rachel Lumsden and Susan Morris. The museum's spacious layout makes it easy to move around the works. Guided tours are regularly organized in French. Bilingual workshops for children aged 5 to 11. Attentive welcome.

In front of the head office of the famous biennoise watchmaking company, this museum invites you behind the scenes and the history of this logo with the presentation of numerous objects, documents and evidence.

The St. Peter's peninsula to the west of Lake Biel is a corner of paradise covered with vines and chestnut trees and criss-crossed by wide paths. It is home to an inn (a former cloister built in 1127) where Jean-Jacques Rousseau stayed for two months in 1765. Goethe, Empress Josephine Bonaparte, the kings of Prussia, Sweden and Bavaria also visited the place. The restaurant of the inn offers an authentic decor and a wonderful terrace where you can taste fish specialities.