The collections of the Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d’Extrême-Orient, feature nearly 9,000 works of art from China and Japan, all housed in an elegant late 19th-century mansion in Geneva. The Swiss collector Alfred Baur (1865-1951) collected an extraordinary array of imperial ceramics, jades, and Chinese snuff bottles spanning the 8th to the 19th century, as well as Japanese art objects such as ceramics, lacquerware, prints, netsuke, and sword ornaments.
These collections of works from the Far East are the most extensive in Switzerland open to the public.