Château de Coppet

Om museet

Coppet was founded around 1280 by Humbert IV of Thoire and Villars; only the south wing of the medieval fortress survives in today's classical building. In 1536, when Bern conquered the Vaud, the castle was stormed and burned by the Bernese. In the 17th century the Counts of Dohna gave it its U-shape; later the Geneva banker Jean-Jacques Hogguer gave it its present appearance.

In 1784 Jacques Necker, banker and former finance minister of Louis XVI, bought the house as a summer residence and had it completely restored. He spent his last years here; the mausoleum for him and his wife was built in 1793/94. His daughter Germaine de Staël inherited Coppet in 1804 and, after her banishment by Napoleon, turned it into the "Salon of Europe": around her gathered the Coppet Group, a center of liberal, intellectual opposition to the Empire.

Auguste de Staël transformed the French garden into an English landscape park and created the "Retour d'Égypte" library in 1819; Mathilde d'Haussonville set up a troubadour chapel in 1880. Since Necker's time the castle has stayed in the family, which still lives there and has opened it to visitors for almost a century. In 2008 Count d'Haussonville transferred the use and operation of the castle, along with its collections and park, to the nonprofit Fondation Othenin d'Haussonville.

Højdepunkter

• Summer residence of Jacques Necker and home of Germaine de Staël
• Setting of the Coppet Group and the "Salon of Europe"
• Furniture, paintings and art objects from the family history
• English landscape park and the Neckers' mausoleum
• Visits by guided tour only

Permanent udstilling

• Besichtigung des Schlosses mit Führung – The tour shows the living and salon rooms of the Necker and de Staël family, with signed furniture, paintings and art objects.

Grundlagt

1924

Ejer

Fondation Othenin d'Haussonville pour le rayonnement de l'esprit de Coppet

Entrépriser & rabatter

Free admission with the Swiss Museum Pass (association of Swiss museums), Raiffeisen membership and Pass Musées – Nyon Région. Payment in cash or by card, in CHF or EUR.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

By car, take the Coppet-Divonne motorway exit, then about 10 minutes to Coppet.

Service & spisesteder

• Café: findes ikke
• Museumsbutik

Reception and shop in the former kitchens (postcards, souvenirs, books on Necker and de Staël). No café in the castle; the historic village center has restaurants and cafés.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer
• Bryllupper / vielser

Op til 280 personer.

Six spaces: Pressoir (up to 200 people), Salle des vignerons, Écuries, Salle des barons, cellar (up to 280 people) and the park. Salle des barons and Salle des vignerons are approved for civil weddings. Inquiries to receptions@chateaudecoppet.ch.

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