Fabergé Museum (Saint Petersburg)

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Fabergé Museum
Shuvalov Palace Petersburg.jpg
Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka
Data
place Saint Petersburg Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 30 ° 20 ′ 34.4 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Decorative Arts Museum
opening 19th November 2013
operator
Link of Times Foundation
management
Vladimir Voronchenko
Website
Museum stairwell

The Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg is a private museum founded by the Russian oligarch Wiktor Wekselberg and supported by his Link of Times Foundation. It is used to display Russian cultural assets that have been sold abroad by the Soviet Union to procure foreign currency. The museum is located in the heart of Saint Petersburg in the historic Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka River . The museum's collection includes more than 4,000 objects, including paintings, goldsmiths, silver dishes, bronzes and porcelain. Outstanding pieces are nine “imperial” Fabergé eggs , which were produced in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the last two Russian emperors Alexander III. and Nicholas II .

History of the museum

The idea of ​​a museum for the work of Peter Carl Fabergé came to Wiktor Wekselberg after purchasing the Forbes collection in 2004. The collection was considered the world's largest collection of Fabergé objects and contained nine “imperial” Fabergé eggs alone . Since then, Wekselberg's Link of Times Foundation has built up a collection of more than 4,000 works from Fabergé's workshop.

In 2006, the Link of Times Foundation began restoring the rented Shuvalov Palace from the 18th century, which was to house the planned museum. The work dragged on until 2013 and brought the building back to its historical condition. They represented the first comprehensive renovation of the palace in its more than 200-year history. The Fabergé Museum was officially opened on November 19, 2013.

collection

The most important pieces in the museum's collection are nine "imperial" Faberge eggs in 2004 with the world's most important Faberge collection for a purchase price of more than 100 million US dollars from the estate of US publisher Malcolm Forbes bought were. A major international auction was planned at the time, and shortly before the auction, Wiktor Wekselberg was able to agree with the auction house and the owners to purchase the entire collection. In addition to these top pieces, there is the surprise from the missing Mauve egg from 1897, two eggs of “imperial quality” that were sold to private individuals, two of the seven “chalice eggs” that the Russian entrepreneur Alexander Kelch bought for his wife Varvara Petrovna Chalice and two other historical Fabergé eggs, which are exhibited together in the museum's Blue Salon.

Fabergé eggs in the collection

Web links

Commons : Fabergé Museum  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to the Link of Times website. The Link of Times foundation, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Alexander Sazonov: Sanctioned Billionaire Transforms Russian Palace Into a Faberge Mecca. August 30, 2019, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Emily Laurence Baker: Fabergé Museum: The jewels in St Petersburg's crown. July 5, 2014, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Shuvalov Palace. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Fabergé Museum has officially opened in the Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg. Official website of the Link of Times foundation, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Absolutely Fabergé: Easter eggs with a difference. Lonely Planet , accessed May 10, 2020 .