An Ocean Odyssey, the Adventure of Chinese Ceramics
Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller
This exhibition presents a selection of choice pieces from the collection of Chinese export ceramics of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller, displayed in a wider cultural context along with navigational instruments, engravings and old books, sculptures and models of boats lent by various Geneva museums. The trip ends with a reconstitution of the deck of a junk, laden with spices and jars, tin ingots and gongs salvaged from the ocean depths.
Around the exhibition
Public tours at 18.30 PM on the following Wednesdays:
March 10th and 24th, April 14th and 28th, May 19th, June 2nd, 16th and 30th
Conferences (upon inscription) at 18.30 PM at the Baur Foundation
Price: 10 CHF (free for the Friends of the Museum)
- Thursday March 18th
Monique Crick, Sur la route de Cathay, à la recherche des épices et des porcelaines - Thursday April 22nd
Monique Crick, Nefs et galions portugais en Mer de Chine, le commerce de la porcelaine chinoise au XVIe siècle - Thursday May 27th
Monique Crick, La Compagnie hollandaise des Indes et les porcelaines « kraak », de la fin du XVIe siècle à la première moitié du XVIIe siècle