Vine, wine & wine label museum, History and Collections

Brief history of the Vine, Wine and

WINE LABEL MUSEUM

The Vine, Wine and Wine Label Museum - Château d'Aigle has in its collections over 10,000 objects that relate to or illustrate the world of vine and wine as well as the associated trades. This is the result of over 50 years of work to safeguard a heritage that was about to disappear. To this is added a collection of wine labels that exceeds 400,000 individuals.

Of course, only a tiny part of these sets are exhibited in the institution's rooms. However, as we are aware of their heritage importance, the institution highlights them in the context of temporary exhibitions that tend to focus on what seems to be its specificity at the global level: wine labels.

COLLECTIONS

The Vine, Wine and Wine Label Museum houses 5 different colections

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A creation by the

GUILLON BROTHERHOOD

In the 1950s, François Cuénoud, creator and first governor of the Confrérie du Guillon (the wine brotherhood that illustrates and defends Vaud wines), thought that the Canton of Vaud needed a Maison de la vigne et du vin (Vine and Wine House) that would house a vine and wine museum, along with premises that will help the promotion of Vaud wines.

At the Swiss national exhibition of 1964, which took place in Lausanne, the display ``La Chaîne du vin`` presented a collection of objects that the Confrérie du Guillon bought for this museum, which had yet to be created. From the following year omward, other purchases and legacies completed this future institution.

As explained in the presentation brochure of the future museum, its mission will be to exhibit the oldest and most diverse objects. As a matter of fact, the evolution of mechanisation is causing a quantity of tools to disappear very quickly, each with its own poetry, and future generations will only have this memory. In 1967 a suitable place was found for the future exhibition: the Château d'Aigle.

There is a true civilisation of wine that knows no race or border. The Vine and Wine Museum will be Vaudois by its location; on the other hand, it will endeavour to present the universal aspect of the vine and its history; it will receive and exhibit witnesses from all times and all origins.

Museography

Press

From 1975 to 2009

A MUSEUM OF ARTS AND FOLK TRADITION

A project inspired by the Burgundy Wine Museum opened in 1946 by Henri Lagrange and the museographer Georges-Henri Rivière was defined. Then, on January 19, 1971, the Vaudois vine and wine museum was founded by the Confrérie du Guillon with the support of all the wine-producing communities of the Canton of Vaud.

A large collection of winegrowers has allowed us to gather an important series of viti-vinicultural objects. But, starting from the principle that it would be wrong to believe that a vine and wine museum is intended to present only a press, pannier, viticultural tools or cellar containers, purchases, gifts and loans make it possible to develop the collections in all the fields related closely or by far with the vine and the wine.

Paintings, engravings, sculptures, bottles, carafes, glasses, porcelain, corkscrews, ... All of the above enhance a set that will be presented at the Château d'Aigle from 1975 in a museography highlighting the arts and popular traditions.

In 2004, the International Wine Label Museum combined its collection of over 400'000 wine labels with that of the Musée Vaudois de la Vigne et du Vin.

LABELS

The Faces of Wine, our database, contains over 1000 different labels.

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Since 2010,

A MUSEUM OF IDEAS

Since 2010, the museum has taken on new challenges, adapting to the times and the expectations of its visitors. From a museum of objects it has become a museum of ideas. The exhibition has changed radically: it is interactive, fun and educational. It is based on current practices in the world of vines and wine in our regions, it evokes the landscape and the environment without forgetting history and ethnography.

In 2013, a special room was dedicated to the wine labels, then other rooms were fitted out to receive temporary exhibitions intended to highlight the collections of what became the Vine, Wine and Wine Label Museum.

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Press room

Cave du Musée de la vigne, du vin, de l'étiquette

The museum cellar

Exposition d'étiquettes - Musée de la vigne

Labels exhibition

Collections

The Vine, Wine and Wine Label Museum – Château d’Aigle elaborates on a programme of annual temporary exhibitions designed to showcase its rich collections. Thus, the objects and documents it possesses continue to tell their own stories, those of the men and women, winegrowers, coopers, glassmakers, wine-drinkers, artists, etc., who have built our villages, shaped our landscapes, and who, in the end, all praise the Chasselas, this grape variety which, according to the latest research, originated on the eastern shores of Lake Geneva.

Collection

ABOUT THE VINEYARD

The associated trades, cooper, glassmaker, bistro, ... as well as quirky objects, a biscuit mould in the shape of a bunch of grapes, a decorated cup ... The out-of-placel, the precious or even the seemingly banal. The museum's collections take you from one surprise to the next.