Barbier-Muller Museum
Barbier-Muller Museum
We are delighted to welcome the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva as a participant of the WanBel global project.
The Barbier-Mueller Museum is home to an exceptional collection of Oceanic art, with rare works from Papua New Guinea that include aiamunu masks from the Purari River, malangan figures, telum figures from Bil Bil Island, and masks from Astrolabe Bay. These pieces reveal the spiritual depth and artistic innovation of the region’s cultures and stand as powerful examples of the museum’s dedication to presenting the aesthetic and cultural significance of each object.
Through decades of preservation, research, thematic exhibitions, and its dynamic publishing program, the museum has established itself as a leading institution in the study and international presentation of non-European art.
The museum’s current exhibition is Pleasing the Spirits, which offers a journey through the Barbier-Mueller Collections, an extraordinary ensemble of works from around the world.
The exhibition includes a number of significant masterpiece works from PNG, which are detailed here on their website as a contribution to WanBel
Pleasing the Spirits has been envisioned by museum director Séverine Fromaigeat and performance artist Paul Maheke, and the exhibition offers a journey alongside objects of incredibly diverse forms and functions. Freely associated, they unfold from room to room, like territories to be explored, a memory rising to the surface, or spirits awakening.
https://www.barbier-mueller.ch/en/2025/10/03/pleasing-the-spirits/
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