Museum Franz Gertsch

Museum Franz Gertsch is an art museum in Burgdorf, Switzerland. In close cooperation with Franz Gertsch, the Swiss architects Hansueli Jorg and Martin Sturm designed exhibition areas which are aligned of their function almost about the works on display. The museum constructing, completed in 2002, is divided into uncovered concrete cubes, which stand at right angles to one another and surround a museum garden. The total exhibition location of some 1000 m².

With the material selection decreased to the minimum, the rooms seem as pure white cubes and stand completely in the carrier of the works displayed. Apart from the exhibition rooms, there is a 50-seat artcafe on the visitors’ disposal, and a video lounge, wherein a documentary on Franz Gertsch is proven at some stage in the day. In 1998, the Burgdorf industrialist Willy Michel made a decision, collectively with Franz Gertsch, to create a museum to be maintained through them each. Willy Michel secured the financing for the entire venture and mounted the willy michel foundation, which provides the idea for the museum’s series.