Publication produced in tribute to Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Barbier-Mueller museum in Geneva. History of the institution, portrait of the collector, the antiques, art of Africa, art from Oceania, Dong-Son bronzes.

Contents

• The Origins of a Museum: The Story of the Barbier-Mueller Collection
• Portrait of a Limitless Collector, Museum Director, and Great Patron
• The Antiquities Collection of a Humanist
• Africa of a Thousand Faces
• Oceania: Around the Lake
• The Bronzes of the Dong Son Culture in the Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
• 40 Years of Splendor
• Some Notes on an Anthropomorphic Terracotta Pot from the Yungur of Northern Nigeria.
• Tributes

Specifications
80 pages, bilingual edition English/French