Eternel Mucha — Alfons Mucha at Chaplin’s World, Corsier-sur-Vevey, 13 November 2026 – 9 May 2027

Chaplin’s World shows Eternel Mucha from 13 November 2026 to 9 May 2027. The exhibition is installed in The Manoir, the house high above the Swiss Riviera where Charlie Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life with his family, and it is built around projections, music and a sensory route rather than around framed originals.

The museum describes Alfons Mucha as “a leading figure of Art Nouveau” who “created an instantly recognisable style in which line, colour, nature and the human form come together in images that have become iconic”, and says the show looks past the decorative surface to “a deeply humanist vision, shaped by ideals of peace, freedom and fraternity”. Compositions unfold as the visitor moves through the rooms, and motifs familiar from a century of reproduction are given a different scale.

Mucha was born on 24 July 1860 at Ivančice, in Moravia. The style that carries his name began with a rush job. On St Stephen’s Day 1894 he was in Paris doing a favour for a friend, correcting proofs at Lemercier’s printing works, when Sarah Bernhardt sent word to the printer’s agent demanding a new poster for her production of Gismonda; every regular Lemercier artist was on holiday, so the commission came to him. The Mucha Foundation records that the poster established him as “the preeminent exponent of Parisian Art Nouveau”. He died of pneumonia in Prague on 14 July 1939, ten days short of his seventy-ninth birthday, and is buried in the Vyšehrad cemetery.

Putting that work inside Chaplin’s house is less of a detour than it sounds. Both men built an image so widely copied that it stopped belonging to them, and both were reproduced on paper long before anyone thought of either as an archive.

The exhibition runs during the museum’s opening hours: from 26 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 the site opens every day, 10am to 5pm, with a shorter day on 25 December, and closes on 1 January and from 11 to 22 January 2027. A ticket for the exhibition alone starts at CHF 9; visitors who have booked The Manoir add it from CHF 7, and those who have booked The Manoir and The Studio from CHF 5. The address is Rte de Fenil 2, 1804 Corsier-sur-Vevey. Bus 212 stops at “Chaplin”, about fifteen minutes from Vevey railway station, and the park around the house covers four hectares with no fixed route through it.

Opening times, prices and booking are on the organiser’s page linked below.