Museum to open in Charlie Chaplin's Swiss manor

Europe will finally have a museum dedicated to film legend Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). - AFP

Tourist attraction to be devoted to life of legendary actor.

CHARLIE Chaplin’s last residence – the Manoir de Ban in Corsier-sur-Vevey, in the heart of the Swiss Riviera – will be transformed into a museum, scheduled to open to the public in 2016.

This new tourist attraction will be devoted to the life and work of the artist behind Modern Times, who died in Switzerland in 1977. Called “Chaplin’s World, by Grévin,” the museum will include 4,000sqm of exhibition space between the manor itself, a new 2,000sqm building and the gardens on the property.

The museum’s scenography will be created by François Confino, who designed the scenography of the Italian National Museum of Cinema in Turin, the Los Angeles Natural History Museum and the Sezon Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

The museum will be managed in part by Compagnie des Alpes, the French company behind the Grévin museums worldwide, as well as a number of ski resorts and French theme parks Parc Astérix and Futuroscope.

In other Chaplin-related news, on Feb 4, the Cineteca di Bologna was launching Charlie Chaplin’s only work of prose fiction, a novella titled Footlights that would be available via the publisher’s website and Amazon. – AFP Relaxnews