Barbier-Mueller Museum
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| Barbier-Mueller Museum Musée Barbier-Mueller |
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| Established | 1977 |
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| Location | 10 rue Jean-Calvin Genève, Switzerland |
| Website | www.barbier-mueller.ch |
The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located, 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Genève (Switzerland). Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive" civilizations around the world. Its goal is to preserve, study, and publish the collection begun by Josef Mueller in 1907 and carried on by his daughter Monique and son-in-law Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller.
The museum has gained international acclaim through itinerant exhibitions, the loans to other museums, and the publication of numerous catalogues and art books.
Twenty years later, in 1997, the Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí was inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain. It is located in the Nadal Palace, opposite to the Picasso Museum, in Montcada Street.
[edit] Further reading
- Icons in gold : jewelry of India from the collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller ; Laurence Mattet; Usha R Bala Krishnan; Musée Barbier-Mueller.; Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery.; Gold of Africa Museum.; Durban Art Gallery. Paris : Somogy Art Publishers ; Geneva : Musée Barbier-Mueller, 2005. ISBN 2850568910
- Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia ; the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller ; Douglas Newton; Musée Barbier-Mueller ; Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999. ISBN 3791320920
[edit] References
- This article was initially translated from the Wikipedia article Musée Barbier-Mueller, specifically from this version.
- Barbier-Mueller Museum Official website.
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