Schaulager, Art museum and research facility in Münchenstein, Switzerland
The Schaulager is a museum and open art warehouse in Newmünchenstein, part of Münchenstein, built in 2002/2003 by Herzog & de Meuron for the Laurenz Foundation and opened in 2003. It provides controlled spatial and climatic conditions for storing the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation collection, and combines public museum, storage facility and art research institute.
The building was founded in 2003 and introduced a new model for art preservation that combines storage, research, and public exhibition in one institution. This combination emerged from a vision to bring collectors and scholars closer together.
The core of the Schaulager is the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, established in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin, later Maja Sacher. The foundation's holdings of contemporary art form the basis of the annual special exhibitions, which have featured artists such as Dieter Roth, Jeff Wall, Tacita Dean, Francis Alÿs, Robert Gober, Andrea Zittel, Monika Sosnowska, Matthew Barney, Steve McQueen, Paul Chan and Bruce Nauman.
The Schaulager is aimed mainly at a specialist audience; the general public gets access during the annual special exhibition, which runs for a few months each year, and at special events. Check the current programme before travelling, since the building is otherwise closed to visitors.
The Schaulager opened in 2003 in Münchenstein, built by Herzog & de Meuron for the Laurenz Foundation. Its core is the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation collection, started in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin, later Maja Sacher. The building is an open warehouse rather than a conventional gallery, and special exhibitions have run for a few months each year, among them Jeff Wall in 2005 and Bruce Nauman in 2018 with MoMA.
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