Swiss museum of games: Musée suisse du jeu

Located on the shores of Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey,
the Swiss museum Jeu de La Tour-de-Peilz dedicated to conservation, research, and dissemination of multiple forms of games. Unlike many other museums in the world, the Swiss Museum of Games distinguishes the ”game”and “toy”, and do not collect them (dolls, model making, etc..).
It is the oldest and the only institution of its kind in Europe. The collection, comprising over 5,500 pieces, ranges fromantiquity to the present. It has games from around the world: the Far East, Indian subcontinent, Africa, America, and of course Europe.

In 1979, after a popular vote, the municipality of La Tour-de-Peilz Acquires Châteauet decided to open this historical context to the public by creating a leisure and meetings dedicated to the world of the game it says then the mission to develop and host the site for the Association of Friends of the Castle. The first exhibition entitled ”Table games and checkerboards” is held in November 1981.
Then Michael Etter, the professor of manual, who  works at the Graduate School of Tour-de-Peilz, contributed by creating the concept of the museum and donated the collection of games.
In 1987, the Swiss museum of the Game is officially inaugurated.  With Innovative project, it quickly becomes famous. Indeed, no one thought to Switzerland to keep these important memories that are the games of childhood and adulthood. In 1989, The Museum  received a special mention in the European Museum Award of the year.
In 2003, the museum and its collections pass into the hands of the Foundation of the Swiss Museum of Games, created for this purpose. The Association of Friends of the Swiss Museum of Games is created and replaces the former Association of Friends of the Castle.

The museum is now run since 2002 by the archaeologist and ludographe Schädler Ulrich.

스위스의  게임 뮤지움.  고시대의 게임부터 매우 정통적이고, 깊이있는 콜렉션을 선보이고 있다.

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