Barbier-Mueller Museum

History

The museum was established to showcase the collections begun in 1907 by the Swiss industrialist and art collector Josef Mueller to ask for study purposes and to publish. The collection includes more than 7,000 objects from the overseas tribal art and classical antiquity, with sculptures, fabrics and jewelry pieces from the primitive cultures are important components. Mueller's daughter Monique Mueller and her husband Jean Paul Barbier Mueller are continuing the work of collectors.

Established in 1997 at the Palacio Nadal in Barcelona museum with pre-Columbian art was disbanded in 2012. The collections had been offered to the city of Barcelona and the Spanish State to purchase it. Because of the critical financial situation in Spain in the year 2012 with the purchase did not materialize. Therefore, the collection was auctioned in March 2013 at Sotheby's in Paris.

Work of the Museum

The museum shows in addition to its permanent collection of art from other museums, organized traveling exhibitions and provides other museums stocks available as loans. It publishes exhibition catalogs and monographs on cultural issues.

Publications

• Douglas Newton: Arts of the South Seas: Iceland Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. Musée Barbier- Mueller. 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.