KW-04-2018: The Swiss National Museum in Zurich is celebrating 50 years of Montreux Jazz Festival history with a major exhibition from January 19th to May 21st, 2018. Leonard Cohen played the very last time in Montreux in the year of 2013.

MONTREUX-Exhib-Pic-BThe Swiss National Museum in Zurich is celebrating 50 years of Montreux Jazz Festival history with a major exhibition from January 19th to May 21st, 2018.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is honored to be the subject of a show presented by one of the most visited museums in Switzerland. For four months, the history of the Festival will be unveiled through concert clips, archival documents, and backstage photographs and videos. Items from the personal collection of Claude Nobs will also be on exhibit, including B.B. King’s guitar, Freddie Mercury’s kimono, and even Nobs’ trademark harmonicas. As the National Museum puts it: „For once the stars and their music will be within easy reach.“

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THE EXHIBITION : 19.1. – 21.5.18

David Bowie, Miles Davis and Deep Purple – they have all played at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Founded in 1967, it has become one of the most prominent music events in the world. The big names in the music business gather in Montreux every year. The happenings that normally unfold on the shoreline of Lake Geneva are now coming to Zurich in the form of an exhibition. The National Museum will look back on 50 years of festival history, celebrating the legendary Claude Nobs and filling the exhibition rooms with music and unique glimpses behind the scenes. For once the stars and their music will be within easy reach.

Montreux. Jazz since 1967.
19th January –  21st May 2018
Swiss National Museum
Museumstrasse 2
8001 Zurich

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Das Landesmuseum Zürich feiert mehr als 50 Jahre Geschichte des Montreux Jazz Festival mit einer grossen Ausstellung, die vom 19. Januar bis 21. Mai 2018 zu besichtigen ist.

Für das Montreux Jazz Festival ist es eine Ehre, Gegenstand einer Ausstellung zu sein, die von einem der meistbesuchten Museen der Schweiz präsentiert wird. Vier Monate lang wird die Geschichte des Festivals in Auszügen aus Konzerten, Archivdokumenten, Fotografien und Backstage-Videos offengelegt. Ausserdem werden Sammlerstücke von Claude Nobs ausgestellt: von B. B. King’s Gitarre über den Kimono von Freddie Mercury, bis hin zu seiner eigenen Mundharmonikas. Das Nationalmuseum kündigt es an: „Ausnahmsweise scheinen die Stars mal zum Greifen nah!“.