David Friedman at Ironic Sans recently shared his gifts to you for 2025.
One of them was a link to the HR Giger’s museum1 website. The site is frozen in amber, and contained some interesting links to QTVR panorama files.
As you might know, I am the web’s foremost expert on QTVR restoration. (I’m joking. But maybe it’s true?!). So I couldn’t resist sprucing up those old panoramas for easy viewing online.
Best viewed with Die Antwoord’s “I FINK U FREEKY” playing in the background:
Village square of Gruyères, Switzerland and upward path to the MUSEUM HR GIGER
Nighttime view, village square of Gruyères and upward path to the MUSEUM HR GIGER
Entrance to the MUSEUM
HR GIGERand courtyard in front of the Giger Bar
Entrance foyer and
Museum Store area
Room No 4
Alien’s Room
Paintings and sculptures, designs for the Ridley Scott film “Alien” 1978, and sketches for the film “Alien3” (1990)
Room No 5
Erotic sculptures, drawings and sketches
Room No 6
“The Spell” paintings, major works from the 70’s
(I was surprised by how large Giger’s canvasses are – this explains how he could get so much level of detail into his pictures.)
Room No 7
Key paintings from the 70’s
Room No 8
Paintings from the “Victory” and “Landscapes” series (between 70’s and 80’s)
Room No 10
The 1980 “Oscar” for the film “Alien”
“Daydream” paintings, a collaborative series by HR Giger, Claude Sandoz and
Walter Wegmüller
Room No 12
“Harkonnen” furniture created for the film “Dune”
(Nice carpet)
Room No 13
Designs (done as airbrush paintings) for the film “Poltergeist II” (1985)
Sketches for “The Mystery of San Gottardo”
Room No 14a
Various paintings, including “Necronom IV” and “Necronom V”, Maxiwatches, and furniture designed by HR Giger
(I like the little aged “religious icons” over the door in this one)
Room No 14b
Original 3D sculpture for the limited edition “Spieces” print, paintings, including the “Passages” series
Room No 16
HR Giger’s private collection : Ernst Fuchs, Jean Poumeyrol, Arman, Abati, Joe Coleman, Dado, Friedrich Kuhn, Andre Lassen, Steve Leyba, Venosa, and more…
(That Kuhn painting reminds me of Tanaka Isson’s work)
The panoramas seem to be from January 2001.
- I’ve come to the realization that Giger is a kind of Victorian artist. He’s creating the exact same kind of ornate design language with bones, bodies and genitals that Christopher Dresser created from plants, twigs and flowers in 1876. Same applies to the crazy-ornate furniture. ↩︎
