The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located at 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in
Geneva
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Switzerland. Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and
Classical antiquity
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as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "
primitive"
civilization
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s around the world. Its goal is to preserve, study, and publish the collection begun by
Josef Müller 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
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Spain
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. It is located in the
Nadal Palace, opposite to the
Picasso Museum, in Montcada Street.
Further reading
* ''The Kalasan
Batak in North
Sumatra, an Unknown Group''. Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller: Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 2011, .
* ''The Sacred, the Secret. On the
Man
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, the
Mona and the
Koyaka of
Côte d'Ivoire''. Alain-Michel Boyer: Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva 2011, .
* ''The Gan of Burkina Faso. Reconstitution of the History and Symbolics of a Little-Known Kingdom''. Daniela Bagnolo: Musée Barbier-ueller, Geneva 2010, .
*''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. .
*''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. .
References
Barbier-Mueller MuseumOfficial website.
See also
*
The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum of
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armor,
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Art museums and galleries in Switzerland
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Museums in Geneva
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