Special Exhibition 2010

"Myth of the Alps in the 19th Century: Richard Wagners hiking tours in Switzerland"

In the early 1850s Richard Wagner lived in Switzerland not only as a political refugee but also as a tourist and an adventurous hiker. Especially Brunnen and Lucerne were visited by Wagner several times. From here he started his long hiking tours in Central Switzerland.

The exhibition shows how dangerous such mountain tours of several days in the pioneer period of Swiss alpinism were. They often took place with unsufficient equipment, mostly on foot or on horseback on unmarked paths. Musical inspirations which resulted from the close relationship of Wagner to the great landscape of the mountains are also reported concretely. The exhibition is enriched by original documents from the Richard Wagner National Archive Bayreuth.

An Exhibition of the Office ARTES, Rombach Curators: Dr. Verena Naegele / Sibylle Ehrismann

Vernissage: Sunday 14th March 2010

The exhibition can be visited during the Opening hours of the museum: from 16th March until 30th November 2010.

Different events to this exhibition are in planning. We will inform shortly.

We would like to point out the following publications to you (both only in German):

A nicely illustrated brochure to this exhibition has been published:

Myth of the Alps in the 19th Century. Richard Wagners hiking tours in Switzerland.
This is available in the museumshop for CHF 15.00.

To the same subject the following new book can be recommended: A place for Gods. Richard Wagners hiking tours in Switzerland.

Authors: Eva Rieger and Hiltrud Schroeder, Böhlau Publishing House, 2009

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