Swiss Museum Reopens with Enhanced Security
August 28th, 2008 Posted by Jennifer Bullock Posted in Press Room
E.G. Buehrle Collection opens to the public as of September 1, 2008
- Group visits anytime upon appointment
- Strong demand expected
- Two recovered paintings on display
Zurich (Switzerland), August 28, 2008 – The Foundation E.G. Buehrle Collection will be open to the public as of September 1, 2008. After the armed robbery on February 10, 2008, the museum was closed for security reasons.
The Collection invites group visitors to schedule an appointment preferably six weeks or more in advance by telephone, by e-mail or through the Collection’s website. A time and date will be arranged at their convenience. For registered individual visitors, a guided tour in German is offered in the afternoon of the first Wednesday each month. To what extent individual visitors will be allowed additional entries will be decided at a later stage.
Lukas Gloor, Director of the E.G. Buehrle Collection, comments: “We expect strong demand based on the many local and international calls we have received to date. We recommend that groups make reservations as early as possible.”
The two paintings recovered after the robbery, “Poppies near Vétheuil” by Claude Monet and “Blossoming Chestnut Branches” by Vincent Van Gogh, will be on display.
Scheduling an appointment for group visitors and guided tours
Please schedule an appointment for group visits preferably six weeks in advance by calling +41 44 422 00 86, by e-mail to info@buehrle.ch or through the Collection’s website at www.buehrle.ch. The costs for group entries are a minimum of CHF 500. There is a surcharge for requests received less than six weeks in advance. Guided tours are available in English, German, French and Italian. The cost for a guided tour, which lasts for slightly more than an hour, is CHF 200 for a maximum of 25. Concurrent tours are possible. The historic rooms of the museum, built in 1886, are also available for private events.
About E.G. Buehrle Collection (www.buehrle.ch)
The E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich, Switzerland is one of the world’s finest private collections featuring French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism paintings. The central theme of the Collection is the gradual evolution of a new artistic freedom with Impressionism being the driving force behind Modernist painting in the 20th century. Emil Buehrle (1890-1956) acquired his pictures and sculptures primarily between 1951 and 1956. In 1960, the collector’s family donated a representative selection of about 200 pieces to the Foundation E.G. Buehrle Collection and opened it to the public. The Foundation museum is housed in a villa adjoining Emil Buehrle’s former home, in which he stored part of his collection during his lifetime.
Remarks to editors
Please note that representatives of the E.G. Buehrle Collection cannot comment on the police investigations related to the armed robbery of February 10, 2008. Investigations are being conducted by the Police Department of the Canton of Zurich.
Downloadable paintings
A selection of paintings from the E.G. Buehrle Collection are downloadable in high resolution format from www.weber-thedy.com/buehrle.
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