Agenda

The exhibition (Reliquaire en chantier) offers the opportunity to discover the secrets of a medieval relic. The reliquary of St. Mauritius is one of the most valuable treasures of the abbey. After centuries of use and the ravages of time, a thorough restoration is necessary. It started in 2017, and the upper (silver) layers, many gems and other materials were removed. The exhibition shows the treasure in all its parts and the collaboration between experts in history, iconography, dendrochronology and other sciences. In this way, the biography of this treasure can be illustrated even more clearly concerning the (art) history of the abbey. The abbey was founded in 516 and has been in use without interruption ever since.

The Brüschweiler Archive holds the most important archive of the painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918). The exhibition reveals parts of this archive. A dozen paintings, numerous drawings and documents provide insight into the life and work of this artist and his close relations with the canton of Jura. His oeuvre includes portraits, landscapes, figure and history pieces. During his lifetime he was already recognized as one of the most important painters of the European avant-garde.

April 1979 saw the opening of the Museum of Music Automatons. To mark its 40^th anniversary, the museum is presenting four themes: Music automatons with figures, music boxes, musical souvenirs and Swiss railway station and waiting hall music boxes. They offer a retrospective of forty years of collecting. The name of the anniversary exhibition – by analogy with “Industry 4.0” (i.e. the fourth industrial revolution) – suggests that some content in the museum will be presented via new media, not least in the newly designed ballroom, due to reopen in autumn 2019.