Museum
Museums in Geneva For its size, the city offers a remarkable density of museums. The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire holds the principal fine-art and archaeology collections; MAMCO leads on contemporary art; the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum reflects the city's humanitarian heritage; and the Patek Philippe Museum traces five centuries of watchmaking. Natural history, science, and ethnography complete the picture. Many municipal museums offer free…
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Patek Philippe Museum The Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva houses one of the world’s most important collections dedicated to the art of watchmaking. It presents approximately 2,500 timepieces, musical automata and enamel miniatures spanning more than five centuries of European, Swiss and Genevan horological history. Opened in its current form in the Plainpalais district, the museum showcases both... Read more
Mamco Mamco, the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, is the principal contemporary-art museum in Geneva, on the Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers in the Quartier des Bains. Housed in a former industrial building, the museum presents a changing programme of exhibitions drawn from its collection and from international loans. It is the anchor of the Bains district, the centre of the city's contemporary-art... Read more
Musée Barbier-Mueller The Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva houses one of the world’s most significant private collections of tribal art and objects from classical antiquity. Founded in 1977 by the Barbier-Mueller family, the museum presents works from Africa, Asia, Oceania, pre-Columbian America and other civilisations, spanning from ancient times to the present day. Located in the historic centr... Read more
Fondation Martin Bodmer The Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny preserves and exhibits one of the world’s foremost collections of rare books, manuscripts and documents tracing the history of writing and literature from antiquity to the modern era. The collection, recognised by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, includes papyri, medieval manuscripts, incunabula and autograph documents by ma... Read more
Fondation Baur Fondation Baur is a museum dedicated to Asian art, located in central Geneva. It houses one of Switzerland’s most important collections of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian art, including ceramics, lacquerware, textiles and archaeological objects. The museum serves visitors, researchers and art enthusiasts interested in Asian cultures and offers a high-quality cultural... Read more