Barbier-Mueller Museum
The Barbier-Mueller Museum is a since 1977 in Geneva , Rue Jean-Calvin no. 10, Switzerland , existing museum .
history
The museum was set up to present the collections of the Swiss industrialist and art collector Josef Mueller, begun in 1907, to make them available for study purposes and to publish them. The collection includes more than 7000 objects from overseas traditional cultures as well as classical antiquity , with sculptures, fabrics and pieces of jewelry from the " primitive " cultures being important components. Mueller's daughter Monique Mueller and her husband Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller (1930–2016) continued the collector's work.
Barber-Mueller Museum, Barcelona
The museum with pre-Columbian art , which had existed in the Palacio Nadal in Barcelona since 1997 , was dissolved in 2012. The collections were offered for purchase to the city of Barcelona and the Spanish state. Due to the critical financial situation in Spain in 2012, no purchase was made. That is why the collection was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in Paris in March 2013 .
activities
In addition to its permanent exhibition, the museum shows works by other museums, organizes traveling exhibitions and makes holdings available to other museums as loans. It publishes exhibition catalogs and monographs on cultural topics.
Publications
- Douglas Newton: Arts of the South Seas: Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller. Barbier-Mueller Museum. Prestel, Munich / New York 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2092-0 .
- Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller : The Kalasan Batak in North Sumatra , an Unknown Group. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 2011, ISBN 978-2-88104-048-1 .
- David Berliner: Mémoires religieuses baga . Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Ribi: Art collector and writer - Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller has died. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 28, 2016.
Coordinates: 46 ° 12 '7.3 " N , 6 ° 8' 48.1" E ; CH1903: 500281 / 117551