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Beautiful Mountains: Art and Kitsch in the Painting Collection of the Swiss Alpine Museum

A Postcard Book (german edition with summary in english)

Schöne Berge

The postcard book «Beautiful Mountains: Art and Kitsch in the Painting Collection» is being published in association with the exhibition «Beautiful Mountains: A Point of View». The book features forty removable postcards which you can send to people, pin up on the wall, or frame; an accompanying booklet provides additional details about the fascinating world of mountain landscape paintings as well as background information on the Swiss Alpine Museum collection. Whether masterpieces or kitsch, the works set up nuances of perception between cliché and reality. Only one question remains: what’s your personal view of the yearning for such «Beautiful Mountains»? The book offers forty opportunities for you to come up with an answer of your own. The book can be ordered now.

Verlag: Scheidegger & Spiess
Herausgeber: Alpines Museum der Schweiz
Masse: 25 × 32.5 cm
ISBN: 978-85881-585-9
Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch & Französisch

Postcard Book
Schöne Berge

24.00CHF
Taschenspiegel Jungfraukette

Pocket Mirror Jungfrau Mountain Range
Mountaineer looking at the Jungfrau mountain range from the top of the Schilthorn, around 1910
Photograph by: Paul Montadon.

Pocket Mirror Jungfrau Mountain

10.00CHF
Bergbuch mit Bleistift

Mountain Book with Pencil
Especially manufactured for the Swiss Alpine Museum by Tapa Atelier.
Each mountain book is unique and every cover shows a different map. Blank pages, size: 11 x 18 cm

Mountain Book with Pencil

34.00CHF
Alpine Saatbombe

Clay Ball of Alpine Flower Seeds
Clay balls containing the seeds of different Alpine flowers.


Clay Ball of Alpine Flower Seeds

5.00CHF
Biwak