Relocation

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Updated on 24 Sept 2026

The reading room will be closed on Thursday, 15 October 2026 due to an event. One-month closure due to the move: From 30 October at 6.00 pm until 29 November 2026 inclusive. Reopening on 30 November at 9.00 am at the new address: Monbijoustrasse 74, 3003 Bern.

Your contacts

If you have any general questions or want to know more about utilising the collections, please contact us by e-mail at Graphische-Sammlung@nb.admin.ch or telephone at +41 58 462 89 71

A group of women, men and children drinking tea in a summer house, a characteristic scene from 1763.
  • Dr. phil. Isabelle Kirgus
    Head of the Prints and Drawings Department / Tel. +41 58 463 08 05 / Main focus areas: collection policy, acquisition, outreach, management board member of the Association Swiss Poster Collections
  • Kathrin Gurtner
    Deputy head of the Prints and Drawings Department / Tel. +41 58 464 80 86 / Main focus areas: Federal Archives of Historic Monuments (FAHM), photographic holdings, indexing standards, indexing of archive and collection holdings
  • Juliette Berthoud
    Specialist / Main focus areas: Indexing of archive and collection holdings
  • Christina Gerber
    Specialist / Main focus areas: Indexing standards (RDA resource type image resources), indexing archive and collection holdings and artists’ books
  • Fabia Hiltbrunner
    Specialist / Main focus areas: Poster collection, indexing of archive and collection holdings, training manager for the Prints and Drawings Department
  • Fabienne Mabillard
    Specialist / Main focus areas: Poster collection
  • Lisa Oberli
    Academic employee / Main focus areas: Swiss minor masters and graphic holdings, “Portrait Suisse” and “Artists’ prints and drawings” project manager, outreach, indexing of archive and collection holdings
  • Kristina Pfister
    Academic assistant / Main focus areas: Indexing of archive and collection holdings, deputy utilisation
  • Beat Scherrer
    Academic employee / Main focus areas: Utilisation, loaned items, special collections
  • Ann-Kathrin Seyffer
    Academic employee / Main focus areas: Digital collection outreach, project manager of “Digital edition of Gabriel M. Lory” and co-project manager of “Poster indexing with AI”, indexing of archive and collection holdings
  • Ivo Stani
    Specialist / Main focus areas: Poster collection, indexing of the Federal Archives of Historic Monuments (FAHM)

Project employees and trainees

Swiss National Library

Prints and Drawings Department
Hallwylstrasse 15
3003 Bern