![In 2021, the wallpaper was carefully restored and prepared for display at the Château de Prangins.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/restaurierung-tapete-titel-300x225.jpg)
From farmhouse to museum: rescuing a length of wallpaper
It’s only thanks to the efforts of historian Maurice Jaenneret (1887-1961) that a magnificent section of wallpaper from a Jura farmhouse was saved from destruction in 1958.
![Postcard showing the farm in La Cibourg, where the wallpaper adorned the walls of a salon on the first floor of the building on the left.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/postkarte-mit-dem-bauernhof-in-la-cibourg-300x192.jpg)
![Mariette Schaetzel’s notes.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/arbeitsnotizen-von-mariette-schaetzel-209x300.jpg)
![Surveying the room dimensions of the salon in situ. Dimensional sketch by Maurice Jeanneret, with added notes by another person, 29 March 1957.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/erhebung-der-raummasse-tapete-211x300.jpg)
![Maurice Jeanneret delivering a talk on the wallpaper in February 1957. Extract from the comic l’Histoire du papier peint de La Cibourg by Fanny Vaucher.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/maurice-jeanneret-halt-einen-vortrag-uber-die-tapete-im-februar-1957-300x217.jpg)
![Valangin Castle in winter, 2009.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schloss-valangin-im-winter-300x200.jpg)
![The wallpaper in the exhibition “Ovid in the Jura” (2022) at the Château de Prangins.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ovid-im-jura-prangins-300x200.jpg)
Ovid in the Jura. The Extraordinary Story of a Wallpape
How did a decor fit for the Tuileries Palace find its way into a farm in the Bernese Jura? The exhibition at Château de Prangins explores a luxurious parlour decorated with wallpaper from the late 18th century – a masterpiece from the Swiss National Museum that is being shown in public for the first time – and tells the fascinating story of its colourful owner. This is a tale of wine, wallpaper, countryside and contraband!