Elysée museum receives Chaplin photographs
A collection of 10,000 photographs belonging to British comedian Charlie Chaplin and tracing his career will be given to a museum in western Switzerland.
The prints and negatives date as far back as 1910, when Chaplin first toured the United States, and will be handed over to the Elysée museum in Lausanne.
“This is fantastic news. We are delighted,” said museum director Sam Stourdzé on Monday.
The museum said the archive, which was owned by the comic actor and his family, was a large collection documenting the whole career of Chaplin.
The photos also have “considerable aesthetic and historical significance” according to the museum.
It will soon launch an educational programme based on Chaplin’s life work.
Chaplin died in 1977, aged 88, in Vevey, just a short distance from the museum.
In 2012 a Charlie Chaplin Museum will open on the Vevey estate on Lake Geneva where Chaplin lived. The project has been ten years in the making.
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