Bicentenary of the Natural History Museum in Geneva

To celebrate its 200th anniversary, the Natural History Museum of the City of Geneva is organising an entire year of exhibitions, cycles of meetings, shows, film screenings, workshops and visits offering visitors an even greater opportunity to explore and build their future while more than ever highlighting the beauty and importance of nature.

Three major exhibitions

The beginning of the festivities will be marked on 25 September 2020 with the launch of three major temporary exhibitions which will run until 27 June 2021:

  • Treasures. 200 years of natural history in Geneva is a chance to discover 200 animals, fossils and mineral taken from the 15 million specimens in the institution's scientific collection, a unique heritage essential to understanding the evolution of our living planet. 
  • Message in a bottle 2120, Te Ao Māori: The artist in residence, George Nuku, invites us to rethink our ties with nature through his Maori heart and to plunge into one of the most urgent environmental problems of our time: the rampant accumulation of plastics in the ecosystems, and in particular the oceans.
  • Wildlife Photographer of the Year of the Natural History Museum in London is the ideal opportunity to understand that the nature around us is made of moments of beauty and tragedy which unceasingly capture our emotions. 
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Biosphère - 200 ans MHN

A programme with the air of a festival

Furthermore, dozens of events and mediation sessions will also be organised at the museum and in different venues around the Greater Geneva area.

These include, among others, the BioSphère concept (photo) installed in different sites around the territory to be discovered from 2 October in Chêne-Bourg, the inauguration evening of the 11th edition of the Antigel Festival, which will be held in the museum, a cycle of conference-debates with personalities from the cultural and scientific world exploring the tensions between nature and culture, discussion days with the institution’s scientists and specialists; a special children-senior citizens workshop at the heart of the museum’s galleries; live shows or the installation created by 300 pupils in Geneva to emphasise the power of curiosity. Finally, with regard to reading, the anniversary work entitled Muséum Genève, 200 ans d’histoire naturelle retraces the amazing story of the institution.

So many events paying homage to the rich history of Switzerland’s largest natural history museum while according a special place to our future and that of our planet!

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Article modifié le 25.03.2024 à 08:55