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In 1897 the Société Auxiliaire du Musée de Genève was founded with the aim of creating a new museum. [3] In 1900 the city of Geneva held an architecture competition to design a new building. The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire was finally built from 1903 to 1910 thanks to the bequest from Charles Galland. However, parts of the collection ...
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine; Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva; Institut et Musée Voltaire; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum; Musée Ariana; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; Musée d'ethnographie de Genève; Natural History Museum of Geneva
Musée d'histoire des sciences. The museum was established in 1964 by the enthusiasm of l'Association du Musée et de la Revue d'histoire des sciences (the Museum and review of the History of Science Association), following an exhibition of science history at the Musée Rath.
A. Kundig Genève. Sigrist, R., 1990. Les origines de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle (1790–1822). La science genevoise face au modèle français, Genève. Mémoires de la SPHN, 45/1. Sigrist, R., 1995. Les origines du Muséum d'histoire naturelle: 1794–1820. Revue des Musées de Genève. (No spécial: Le Muséum d'histoire ...
It was founded in 1817 in a former area of Bastions Park in 1817 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.The Botanical Gardens were transferred to the Console site (192 rue de Lausanne) in 1904, constructed by the Genevan architect Henri Juvet in 1902–1904 specifically to house the Delessert herbarium held at Bastions.
The area, along with neighbouring La Praille, initially belonged to the lord of Lancy before moving under the lordship of La Bâtie-Meillé in 1347. [1] This district was progressively developed from the Middle Ages onwards by sewage works, allowing market gardening activities on the Arve side and livestock breeding towards la Praille.
In the 1601 Treaty of Lyon, Sayvoy relinquished the Pays de Gex - including Collex - to France which pressured Geneva to withdraw from the area. [6] Fontaine-Borgel's manuscript. In 1641/42, the lawyer Michel de Gillier purchased both the land and the title of Baron de Bâtie-Beauregard from the heiress of the de Champion and de Crose families. [7]
The Musée Rath is an art museum in Geneva, used exclusively for temporary exhibitions. Its building is the oldest purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, and the original home of Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. It is located on Place Neuve, in front of the old city walls, next to the Grand Théâtre and near the Conservatoire de Musique.