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
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
Geneva Botanical Garden		Sécheron	Natural history	Botany	Includes an interpretation space, temporary botanical exhibitions, and the listed houses La Console and Le Chêne
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

See also

• Musée d'art et d'histoire
• Category:Tourist attractions in Geneva

External links

• Musées de Genève – network of the city's public and private museums; exhibition listings, museum pass and the annual Museum Night
• Museums in Geneva – Geneva Tourism's visitor directory, arranged by theme