Chiara Paderi

Review of Fondation Beyeler

The vote is not for the structures or to the colle...

The vote is not for the structures or to the collection, but for incompetence, malice and racism employee. They do not accept reservations (despite numerous emails sent by the organizers) for large groups, on the other hand it is permissible to treat them as human waste at the entrance of the museum.
Situation: Group of 50-60 children between designers and architects, all under 25 years old then, for the policies of the foundation, not paying. The cashier, visibly annoyed, requires 56 documents, you can print free tickets. Realizing the idiocy of that decision, it controls top ten and returns them all but 1; a passport. After several checks made by us poor students (on the ground and in the backpacks of other people), the unfortunate (she no longer passport) and her friend, kindly ask (in English), the cashier, to check if the passport is ended land in his office, giving the feel crazy and are sent away. They return with a girl who knows how to speak German, the same treatment. Without hope, the girls ask infopoint to call the authorities to report the lost passport; magically, after an exchange of telephone calls between employees, the document back to their rightful owner. Employees inform that was found in the middle of the garden of the foundation (yes, of course, as no). We hope it was just an oversight of the adorable secretary and not a childish gesture that flows into illegality. In all this, being non-paying visitors, we were invited to put the backpacks on our bus, while the rest of the visitors came into the exhibition areas with purses, handbags, backpacks and cameras. So, if you do not like that people, under 25 years enter for free; DO NOT DO IT! We would have gladly paid to visit the foundation, not treated as profiteers who enter for free because under 25 years old ...