Johann Jacobs Museum
 Johann Jacobs Museum, exterior view |
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The Johann Jacobs Museum is a cultural history museum in Zurich-Seefeld . It is managed by Roger M. Buergel and is located in the Villa Ernst, built in 1913 .
history
The building was designed in 1913 by the architect Otto Honegger. The client was the entrepreneur and politician Fritz Ernst-Curty. The representative building in the Neo-Rococo style is located directly on the promenade along Lake Zurich .
By 1984 the villa was converted into the Jacobs Suchard Museum , a museum on the cultural history of coffee . Another renovation took place in 2011 by Miller & Maranta . A new staircase was installed in the entrance area. The museum reopened in 2013 and is dedicated to the history of global trade routes . It is named after Johann Jacobs (1869–1958). The museum is supported by the Jacobs Foundation , which Jacobs' great-nephew Klaus J. Jacobs (1936–2008) founded.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst, Friedrich. (also Friedrich Ernst , * 1857; accessed on April 29, 2018)
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '34.9 " N , 8 ° 32' 53.1" E ; CH1903: 683812 / two hundred forty-six thousand and twenty-one