The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (musée Fondation Zoubov) exhibits the residence and interior of a French-style house from around 1720 et 1723. The residence belonged to a nobel family and all VIPs visited the residence, such as Camille de Cavour, Jean-Jacques de Sellon, Théodore Turrettini, Franz Liszt. The museum shows paintings, furniture and numerous artefacts from the eighteenth … Read more » “Foundation Zoubov”
The Centre for Contemporary Art organises exhibitions in various fields, including architecture, dance, design, design, design, reading, reading, design, drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.
Les collections de la Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d’Extrême-Orient, présentent près de 9000 objets d’art de la Chine et du Japon. Le collectionneur Alfred Baur (1865-1951) est à l’origine d’un ensemble de céramiques impériales, jades et flacons à tabac chinois du VIIIe au XIXe siècle, ainsi que d’objets d’art japonais comprenant des céramiques, laques, estampes, netsuke … Read more » “Fondation Bauer”
The museum houses a collection of scientific instruments from 17th to 19th century Geneva scientists.
The museum shows the history of the United Nations.
The museum exhibits important watch collections.
The collection contains over 7,000 articles and includes works of art from Tribal and Classical Antiquity as well as sculptures, fabrics and ornaments from “primitive” civilisations around the world. Many of these works are considered to be unqualified masterpieces. The museum has gained international acclaim through its itinerant exhibitions, its loans to other museums, and … Read more » “Barbier-Müller Museum”
The Roman Antiquities collection of the museum (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire) contains Gallo-Roman objects, including Republican and Imperial coins, monumental statuary and portraits, mosaics, intaglios, jewels, silversmithing, sacrophages, furniture and many other pieces of art. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Near East, Soudan are represented as well. The Department of Applied Arts, holds various collections dating from … Read more » “Museum of Art and History Geneva”
The archaeological site shows a model of the the north cathedral, monks’ cells, Geneva in the 6th century, wheat processing, liturgical furnishings of the choir, the 11th-century cathedral, the east cathedral, the Allobrogian tomb, the Roman crypt, the First century building, the bishop’s reception hall and the episcopal Group.
The International Museum of the Reformation shows the history of Geneva and the Reformation. As such, it tells the story of both an idea and an ambition. In the 16th century, John Calvin sought to transform Geneva into a model for a new way of living the Christian life, serving as an example to the … Read more » “Museum of the Reformation”