Museum collection Am Römerholz

Oskar Reinhart came from one of the world's big trading houses, based in the Swiss town of Winterthur, and he spent much of his life turning the family money into one of the most discerning private art collections in Europe. In 1924 he bought a hillside villa called Am Römerholz, added a gallery wing the following year, and hung old masters beside the French moderns he loved so that each set the other off.

You still see them that way today. A single room might place a Goya or a Cranach a few steps from a Cézanne, a Renoir, a late Manet, or one of the van Goghs he bought early. Reinhart left the house and everything in it to the Swiss confederation, and it opened to the public in 1970, kept close to the way he had arranged it while he lived there.