Southern Sass: It's a Charlie Chaplin Museum in Switzerland...

5.01.2016

It's a Charlie Chaplin Museum in Switzerland...

In 1972, an Oscars audience gave Charlie Chaplin a 12-minute standing ovation, its longest ever. In 1975, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him Commander of the British Empire. And in 2016, his highest a

If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version

Jetset

May 01, 2016

Charlie Chaplin's Last Home Is Now a Museum
Exploring the Tramp's Luxurious Manor in Switzerland

VITALS

Chaplin's World
Route de Fenil 2
CH-1804 Corsier-sur-Vevey
Switzerland
+41 (0) 21 903 01 30
official website

Modern Times Hotel
Chemin du Genévrier 20
1806 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz
Switzerland
+41 (0) 21 925 22 22
official website

In 1972, an Oscars audience gave Charlie Chaplin a 12-minute standing ovation, its longest ever.

In 1975, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him Commander of the British Empire.

And in 2016, his highest accolade yet: the appropriately named Chaplin's World opened in Switzerland. See the slideshow.

To be fair, Manoir de Ban would be museum-worthy even if Chaplin hadn't sold his Beverly Hills home, renovated the neoclassical-style 19th-century estate that overlooks Lake Geneva and lived in it for 25 years. But he did. So there's a serious amount of brilliance to be absorbed here.

It'll happen while touring the expansive quarters. (Here's the library where he wrote scripts, here's the living room where he threw parties...) It'll happen when pantomiming in the new Hollywood-style studio that houses wax figures connected to his life. (Here's Albert Einstein, here's Winston Churchill, here's Michael Jackson...)

And it'll even happen when dining at the on-site restaurant, the Tramp. (Here's the charcuterie, here's the Campari...)

Then stop by the boutique to pick up a cane and a hat before heading to your hotel, which should probably be the nearby Modern Times. You're right, that is the name of Chaplin's 1936 film.

It made more sense than Tillie's Punctured Romance.