Fun Fact: Visitors are surprised by a bathroom dedicated to Albert Einstein's statue sticking his tongue out in front of what appears to be a mirror and with formulas including E=mc^2 written on the wall at the back. This recent addition to the museum on Charlie Chaplin's 40th death anniversary commemorates the great friendship the two contemporaries shared. In reality though, the mirror is only an illusion, a reflective glass conceals another statue and a wall with the formulas inverted (right side left) as a mirror image.

Einsteinhaus:

Einstein's stay in Switzerland was shorter than Chaplin's but very productive. He lived on the second floor of a three-floor apartment in Bern with his wife Meliva Marić and their first son Hans Albert between 1903 to 1905 while working as a technical officer at the Federal Patent Office. The great physicist revolutionized our understanding of space and time as he wrote his theory of relativity here. Today, furnished in the style of Einstein's time, the apartment is open to tourists and documents young Einstein's life during his years in Bern while still working on his dissertation, holding a full-time job and helping to raise a family. The museum also highlights the most creative period of Einstein's scientific discovery, 1905.