List of museums in Geneva

This is a list of museums in Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva is one of the country's densest museum cities and home to institutions of international standing. Also included are university and non-profit art galleries, arts centres, and cultural centres with galleries.

List of Museums Name Image Quartier Type Focus Summary Archaeological Site of St. Pierre Cathedral Cité Archaeology Roman and early medieval Geneva Underground remains of four successive cathedrals from the 4th century, mosaics and an Allobrogian chieftain's tomb Bibliothèque de Genève Plainpalais Library Books and manuscripts Rotating exhibitions from the library's collections of manuscripts, early printed books, posters and photographs, in the Couloir des coups d'œil and the Art Nouveau Espace Ami Lullin Cast Collection of the University of Geneva Plainpalais Art Ancient sculpture Plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture assembled from 1779 Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève Plainpalais Art Contemporary art First contemporary art institution in Suisse romande; organiser of the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement Centre de la photographie Genève Plainpalais Art Photography Non-collecting venue exhibiting new commissions, media art, and film FMAC Jonction Art Contemporary art Temporary exhibitions Fondation Baur Champel Art East-Asian art Late 19th-century town house holding the some 9,000 Chinese and Japanese works collected by Alfred Baur Galerie Forde Cité Art Contemporary art Non-profit, artist-run space located in an alternative cultural center Geneva Botanical Garden Sécheron Natural history Botany Includes an interpretation space, temporary botanical exhibitions, and the listed houses La Console and Le Chêne Geneva Fire Brigade Museum Jonction History Firefighting History of the Geneva Fire Brigade, equipment, apparatus Halle Nord Cité Art Contemporary art Exhibitions, open studios, and window displays showcasing local and emerging artists International Museum of the Reformation Cité History Reformation and Protestantism Books, manuscripts, paintings and engravings International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Sécheron History Humanitarian action History of the Red Cross Movement, with the UNESCO-listed archives of the International Prisoners of War Agency and Henry Dunant's Nobel Peace Prize medal Maison Tavel Cité History Geneva history Operated by the MAH, 14th-century townhouse exhibiting Geneva urban history, daily life and the Relief Magnin model Musée Ariana Sécheron Art Ceramics and glass Bequeathed to the city in 1890 by Gustave Revilliod; Switzerland's only museum of ceramics and glass Musée Barbier-Mueller Cité Art Non-Western and ancient art Private museum showing the Barbier-Mueller family collection of African, Oceanic, Asian, pre-Columbian and classical works Musée d'art et d'histoire Les Tranchées Art Encyclopedic Fine arts, Egyptian, Greek and Roman archaeology, arms and armour, textiles, silverware, Geneva watchmaking and enamelling Musée d'ethnographie de Genève Plainpalais Art Encyclopedic African, American, Asian, European and Oceanian collections, ethnomusicology and visual anthropology Musée d'histoire des sciences Sécheron Science History of science Astronomy, microscopy, meteorology, navigation, surveying, medicine, sundials Musée Rath Cité Art Temporary exhibitions Switzerland's oldest purpose-built art museum and among the first in Europe; now the MAH's temporary exhibition venue Musée Tatiana Zoubov Cité Art Decorative arts 18th-century townhouse exhibiting paintings, period seat furniture, mantel clocks, Qing objects and a cabinet devoted to Catherine II Musée Voltaire Saint-Jean Literature Voltaire and the Enlightenment Voltaire's home Les Délices; the world's largest collection of his manuscripts, with paintings and prints of the writer and his circle Muséum d'histoire naturelle Les Eaux-Vives Natural history Zoology, geology, palaeontology Largest natural history museum in Switzerland Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO) Plainpalais Art Modern and contemporary Switzerland's largest contemporary art museum, in a former factory Patek Philippe Museum Plainpalais Horology Watches and enamels Corporate museum of the watchmaker Patek Philippe, showing its production and a collection of Genevan, Swiss and European watches, automata and enamels Saint-Antoine Archaeological Site Cité Archaeology Geneva from antiquity to the modern era Beneath esplanade Théodelinde United Nations Museum Sécheron History Multilateral diplomacy Documents from the United Nations archives on a century of multilateralism in Geneva, in the Palace of Nations Villa Dutoit Petit-Saconnex Art Contemporary art Contemporary art exhibitions by local and visiting artists in a listed villa, with concerts, talks and readings

List of museums in Geneva

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