![Sisi felt very much at home in the Bernese Oberland. And not just because of the excellent whey, which she drank by the litre.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/iojoijojoi-300x225.jpg)
Bernese whey receives royal approval
Sisi, the famous Empress Elisabeth, was a much more frequent visitor to Switzerland than previously known. She visited the Bernese Oberland in 1892, where she very much enjoyed a local product normally used as pig feed...
![Brief statement about the Empress in Intelligenzblatt für die Stadt Bern of 14 September 1892.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/artikel-sisi-300x99.jpg)
![The Empress wearing a Swiss blouse and Bernese belt: Elisabeth had this photograph taken in Vienna.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sisi-schweizer-bluse-290x300.jpg)
![Hotel Jungfraublick on a photograph by Adolphe Braun, circa 1900.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hotel-jungfraublick-foto-300x171.jpg)
![Life-size replica of a dairy at the 1896 National Exhibition in Geneva: the premises at Lake Brienz probably looked similar.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kaserei-243x300.jpg)
![Watery whey: the liquid left after making cheese.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/molke-300x258.jpg)