Since April 2017, the collective ship postcard museum has been presenting Dorothée Bouchard’s “Postcard Collection,” which she donated to the museum, in a dedicated cabinet.
In 1978, the Düsseldorf artist Dorothée Bouchard created an etching for the Düsseldorf Art Association depicting a mailbox. Enclosed with the etching was a ship postcard with a request to send back another ship postcard. The response was surprisingly high. The result is a collection of thousands of ship postcards from senders and artists all over the world. Ocean liners, sailing ships, rowboats, icebreakers, warships, rafts, junks, dinghies, wrecks, and shipwrecks – a voyage of discovery through the history of shipping.
Everything to do with ships and water is represented in the collection.
From the numerous submissions, the Musée maritime de Balsièges emerged in an old mill in the Massif Central in southern France, the second home of Dorothée Bouchard and her husband Elliot Bouchard.
