HR Giger Museum
The HR Giger Museum is a museum in Gruyères in the Swiss canton of Friborg that houses fantasy works of art by the artist HR Giger (1940–2014). It is housed in the medieval Château Saint-Germain below the Gruyères castle .
history
In 1990 HR Giger exhibited a retrospective of his works in Gruyères Castle . He liked the area and decided to set up a museum there when Saint-Germain, just below the larger castle, was for sale. On September 11, 1997, he acquired the castle, which is on the list of cultural assets of national importance in the canton of Friborg . On June 21, 1998 the HR Giger Museum was opened after renovation work.
exhibition
The museum shows objects from the artist's private collection, which includes works from several phases of creation. This also includes designs for creatures from the science fiction films Alien , Alien 3 , The Desert Planet , Species and Poltergeist II .
Sculpture in front of the museum
Object at the entrance
torso
Giger bar
The Giger bar in the castle has existed since 2003. The facility represents the typical Giger connection between human-biological and technical elements, for example the structure of a spinal column with cables. The chairs are a light variant of the Harkonnen chair. This was designed for the film The Desert Planet , but never realized. There is another bar in Giger's hometown of Chur .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The official WebSite of HRGiger-Auction. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .