Located between Montreux and Lausanne, Vevey is famous for two things and two things only: Nestlé’s Alimentarium food museum with its giant fork in the lake and as the last place Charlie Chaplin lived before he died on Christmas Day in 1977.
Charlie Chaplin Statue 
The Fork
The Alimentarium is a museum by food giant Nestlé is the world’s first museum dedicated to food. It shows the history of human food and inspires visitors to reflect on their consumption of food, where it comes from, and food security for the future.
Lac Léman
The giant 8 meter high fork outside the museum has its prongs suck in the lake and is made to perfect proportions and is the largest fork in the world. It was first installed in 1995 as a temporary piece of art where it was then moved to the garden of a cutlery factory in Luzern. In 2007, it returned temporarily to Vevey for a temporary exhibition, but when residents signed a petition to keep the fork – it stayed.
Alimentarium 
Facing the fork, the Charlie Chaplin statue was made by the British sculptor John Doubleday in 1982 to commemorate the 25 years that Chaplin spent in Switzerland. During that time, he made some of his best work such as A King in New York and A Countess from Hong Kong and had four Swiss-born children.
