Musée Barbier-Mueller ( Barbier-Mueller Museum), Geneva

The Barbier-Mueller Museum, established in 1977, can be found on rue Jean-Calvin in Geneva. Its extensive collection comprises over 7,000 items, encompassing artworks from Tribal and Classical antiquity, as well as sculptures, textiles, and ornaments from various "primitive" civilizations across the globe.

For well over a century, Josef Mueller and his son-in-law Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, driven by a deep curiosity and possessing a keen eye for art, diligently amassed the largest privately held collection of traditional arts from Africa, Asia, Oceania, pre-Columbian America, and various ancient civilizations. In 1977, Monique and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller founded the museum in Geneva to make this remarkable collection accessible to the public, featuring a multitude of must-see masterpieces. Their objective is to safeguard, study, and publish the collection initiated by Josef Müller back in 1907.

The museum has garnered international recognition through traveling exhibitions, loans to other museums, and the publication of numerous catalogs and art books. Thanks to the richness of its collections, the Musée Barbier-Mueller has hosted nearly ninety exhibitions within its premises and close to a hundred worldwide during its more than four decades of existence. Many of these exhibitions resulted from collaborations with researchers, while others emerged from the interactions poets and artists had with the museum's artifacts.