The story of this place
At Kramgasse 49 in Bern, Albert Einstein lived with his wife Mileva from 1903 to 1905 while working as a technical expert at the Swiss Patent Office. In this modest apartment, during his 'miracle year' of 1905, he produced four papers that transformed physics—on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, mass–energy equivalence (E=mc²) and, most famously, special relativity. He was just 26. The flat is preserved as a museum with period furniture, and the Bern Historical Museum nearby holds the largest Einstein collection in the world.