This section contains an overview of the most relevant exhibitions in Switzerland and neighbouring regions. Each item is connected to the organizing museum.
The exhibition “big City Life” presents works that are either set in the city or are about it. The exhibition brings together renowned artists from Europe and the USA.
The artists’ perceptions and representations of the city are just as idiosyncratic and diverse as the perspectives from which they view it. The techniques used to realise these works are as varied as the themes laid out.
On 9 March 1820, the Geneva Academic Museum was inaugurated. The museum is the predecessor of the current natural history museum (Musée d’histoire naturelle) in Malagnou.
The Museum of the History of Science (Musée d’histoire des sciences) was opened in 1964. The museum is housed in the Villa Batholdi in the Parc de la Perle du Lac.
The two museums merged a few years ago under the name Muséum Genève, while remaining in the same buildings.
The natural history museum has selected 200 objects from its immense collections to celebrate the bicentenary.
A doctor and collector, Pierre Decker (1892–1967) dedicates his life to the practice of medicine and to his passion for two of the greatest printmakers in Western art: Albrecht Dürer (1472-1553) and Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669).
To mark the publication of a major work devoted to collector of art, the cantonal prints collection (Cabinet cantonal des estampes) is offering an opportunity to rediscover this prestigious ensemble in the Jenisch museum.
The exhibition shows around seventy works, including a work by Lucas Cranach the Older (1472-1553).