Walk-in scenes
The Kid's street, Modern Times' cogs — cinema built around you.
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McCarthy's America revoked his re-entry in 1952 mid-Atlantic on 'red sympathy' grounds — so he settled in neutral Switzerland with young Oona, most of their eight born here, composing his scores and receiving the great until his death on Christmas night 1977. His amends Oscar of 1972 (history's longest ovation) came with exile already home — and his grave lies in the village cemetery within sight.
Designed precisely so: the scenes play interactively, the wax is a recognition game, the screenings serve the silent language culture-free — children statistically its best public. Then half the visitors leave to watch their first Chaplin — the place's declared purpose.
Vevey town itself discovers sweetly: Nestlé's giant lake-planted fork (world HQ here), Charlie's quayside statue, the Tuesday and Saturday market — and the Alimentarium, the family food museum. Then the shore walk to Montreux, one full flowered hour.
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In the Manoir de Ban above Vevey — the house where Charlie Chaplin lived his last quarter-century among trees over Léman — stands his only world museum: Chaplin's World, opened 2016 with his family and Grévin's waxworks in partnership. Two wings complete each other: the great Hollywood Studio rebuilds his immortal scenes to walk inside — The Kid's street, Modern Times' cogged machines, The Great Dictator's barbershop — with stunningly made wax figures around a circular cinema; and the Manoir, the house itself furnished, telling Chaplin the father and man: exiled from McCarthy's America in 1952 to find here twenty-five years of peace with Oona and their eight children. The ten-acre garden of veteran trees looks to lake and Alps — and children who never heard his name leave lovers of his silence: the place's most famous guarantee.
The Kid's street, Modern Times' cogs — cinema built around you.
His desk, piano and family salon — Chaplin without moustache or cane.
Charlie, Einstein and his era's guests at step-stopping precision.
His veteran trees and Léman view — his evening walk of twenty-five years.
Route de Fenil 2, 1804 Corsier-sur-Vevey