The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located at 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Geneva

Geneva

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity

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 as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from "primitive

Primitive culture

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" civilization

Civilization

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s 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

Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí

The Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí is a museum devoted to a collection of artefacts and the artistic legacy of the pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, located in the Catalonian capital of Barcelona, Spain...

was inaugurated in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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. It is located in the Nadal Palace, opposite to the Picasso Museum

Museu Picasso

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, in Montcada Street.

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