Author: Sibylle Habegger

The Memoria Mennonitica Association was founded in 2005 with the aim of preserving and promoting the Anabaptist Mennonite cultural heritage. This goal is now also being pursued by the newly established Anabaptist Heritage Foundation (of which Memoria Mennonitica is one of the Foundation supporter, see News from 29.02.24).
At the general meeting on November 29, 2024, it was decided to dissolve the association by the end of 2025 at the latest. The current members of the association are invited to join the Circle of Friends of the Anabaptist Heritage Foundation.

Since 2018, retired pastor and former rector of the Bern Ecclesiastical Theological Church, Dr. Ulrich J. Gerber, has been managing a private Anabaptist museum in Renan with numerous objects relating to the history and art of the Anabaptist Mennonite movement. He now wants to bequeath these historical objects to the Anabaptist Heritage Foundation. Ulrich J. erber comes from an old Mennonite family and has been intensively involved in researching Anabaptist history throughout his life.
The Foundation Board is delighted that Ulrich J. Gerber intends to hand over his valuable collection to the Foundation.

The Anabaptist Heritage Foundation is planning an exhibition on the history of the Anabaptists in the Jura for the jubilee year 2025. The exhibition will be open to the public from April to October in the Jeanguisboden Chapel. Objects from the collection of Dr. Ulrich Gerber and from the Mäder-Studer collection will also be on exhibit.

At its meeting on 26.04.2024, the Foundation Board decided that a historical Anabaptist quilt from the “Monika Willi” collection will be loaned to the organizers of a quilt exhibition in Zurich. The exhibition will take place from May to June 2025 as part of the celebrations of 500 years of Anabaptism in Zurich. A suitable loan contract will be drawn up.