Adjacent to the museum is the fantastic HR Giger Bar. The bar is a work of art, an original and completely unique experience. The ceiling, walls, floors, fittings, tables and chairs are all modelled by the artist in the style of his acclaimed biomechanical designs. Giger Bar is the ultimate in immersive art.

HR Giger was born in 1940 in Chur, a little town in northern Switzerland, where his father was a Pharmacist. He went to the Applied Arts School of Zürich where he completed his education by studying interior architecture and industrial design. HR Giger died in May 2014 and rests in the cemetery of Gruyères.

He was one of the most renowned artists in the world of fantastic realism and, through his museum, lets us delve deep into this unique and paradoxical universe. This provocative genius leaves few people indifferent. Is it not the purpose of art to generate emotions?

The artist bought the St-Germain Castle in 1997 and inaugurated his museum in June 1998. Thanks to this museum, HR Giger gives to Gruyères an extraordinary dimension where two completely different worlds meet – a small Medieval town, verdant and picturesque and a parallel universe, futuristic and unreal.

Giger was an all-around Artist – a great designer, a visionary painter and sculptor. His profession of Interior Architect and Industrial Designer gives a particular calibre and diversity to his work.

HR Giger’s last major work is HR Giger Bar, a gothic-style bar, recalling the interior of an organic body or a cathedral made of bones. Enjoying a drink there in Gruyères, Switzerland, is to be an integral part of the surreal and futuristic vision of the Swiss artist.