Agenda

To celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of Alighieri Dante (1265-1321),  the museum honours this great figure of literature with the  exhibition The Making of Dante. 

The term “making” is intended to interpret Dante’s work as a giant laboratory of literature and to refer to his ongoing “creation” over the centuries. 

The exhibition is divided into three parts; the first brings visitors closer to Alighieri through famous readers of his works, from Charles Baudelaire to David Bowie. 

The second part reconstructs what is likely to have been Dante’s library and the poet’s “dialogue” with the texts he read. 

The third section leads to his writings and to Dante, the poet and Dante, the human being.

The show also presents rare books and manuscripts from the Martin Bodmer Fondation and from other institutions. There is, for example, an original copy of the famous portrait of Dante by Sandro Botticelli from 1495.  

The Centre Culturel du Manoir de Cologny is organising the exhibition Le studiolo de Dante and  the three worlds of the Divine Comedy, the Hell, the Purgatory and the Paradise.

The exhibition is a journey back in time to the 15th century and lets the lord of Landshut Castle at that time, Thüring von Ringoltingen, have his say. Fascinated by the French legend of the water fairy “Melusina”, in 1456, he tells his own version of this mythical figure’s fate, of her knight Reymond and the doom of the “forbidden gaze”.

This is what happened to the noble knight when he broke his promise, observed Melusina in the bath and discovered that his wife had “the shape of a large worm from the navel downwards”!

The printing of Thüring’s Melusina novel by a publisher in Basel, embellished with expressive woodcuts, laid the foundation for a four-hundred-year success story! While the exhibition impressively depicts Thüring’s Melusina in artistic illustrations, the visitor is learning exciting facts about fashion, habits and customs in the late 15th century.

The Tinguely museum ship Ahoy! returned on 23 September from a trip of eleven weeks.

The weekend of 25–26 September 2021 will mark the culmination of the jubilee activities of the museum. The Solitude Park, the museum and the exhibition barge at anchor right next to the museum set the stage for the celebrations.

Countless activities, workshops, shows and culinary will be embedded in a dynamic labyrinth. Saturday evening will be devoted to concerts and DJ sets.

The programme has been conceived as a kind of ‹Best of› the museum’s many different activities of the past twenty-five years.