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Thursday 9 April, 14:30

Join a playful reading workshop that grows beyond the page. Build your own kamishibai theatre inspired by the paintings of Konrad Witz. Cut, paint and arrange colorful cards, then practice telling short scenes with rhythm and voice. Feel the paper rustle, see bright blues and greens, and move characters across panels. Work with friends to invent a story and bring images to life through sound, gesture and simple stagecraft.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 19:00

A performed reading by Alex Quicho and Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee that probes decapitation as both metaphor and material. Quicho, a London-based theorist and writer, blends critical writing, performative lecture and moving-image practice; Lee, artist and research director, works with new media, orality and public programming to examine post‑tropical environments, psychic rupture and neo‑gothic currents. The piece pairs rigorous theorizing with embodied voice and subtle sonic textures, creating an intimate, spectral atmosphere. Presented during a residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Thursday 9 April, 18:30

Guided thematic visit led by cultural mediator Isabelle Burkhalter, exploring representations of the paschal lamb across historical and contemporary artworks. The tour considers paintings, sculptures and ritual objects, examining the lamb’s symbolic roles in religious ritual, domestic tradition and visual culture. Attention falls on artists’ approaches to iconography and materiality, and on how imagery negotiates sacred meaning and popular celebration. The visit invites reflection on continuity and transformation in collective remembrance.

In French.

7 – 9 April

Create, print and animate insect friends. Start by imagining and modeling your own fantastic insect in 3D, inspired by real rainforest species. Then print it, paint bright colors, add textures and recycled materials to decorate its body. Place your creature into a shared vivarium that fills with color and tiny movements. Finish with a stop-motion workshop to make your insect walk and buzz on screen, learning about shape, texture and storytelling through hands-on play.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 14:30

Join a playful reading workshop that grows beyond the page. Build your own kamishibai theatre inspired by the paintings of Konrad Witz. Cut, paint and arrange colorful cards, then practice telling short scenes with rhythm and voice. Feel the paper rustle, see bright blues and greens, and move characters across panels. Work with friends to invent a story and bring images to life through sound, gesture and simple stagecraft.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 19:00

A performed reading by Alex Quicho and Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee that probes decapitation as both metaphor and material. Quicho, a London-based theorist and writer, blends critical writing, performative lecture and moving-image practice; Lee, artist and research director, works with new media, orality and public programming to examine post‑tropical environments, psychic rupture and neo‑gothic currents. The piece pairs rigorous theorizing with embodied voice and subtle sonic textures, creating an intimate, spectral atmosphere. Presented during a residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Thursday 9 April, 18:30

Guided thematic visit led by cultural mediator Isabelle Burkhalter, exploring representations of the paschal lamb across historical and contemporary artworks. The tour considers paintings, sculptures and ritual objects, examining the lamb’s symbolic roles in religious ritual, domestic tradition and visual culture. Attention falls on artists’ approaches to iconography and materiality, and on how imagery negotiates sacred meaning and popular celebration. The visit invites reflection on continuity and transformation in collective remembrance.

In French.

7 – 9 April

Create, print and animate insect friends. Start by imagining and modeling your own fantastic insect in 3D, inspired by real rainforest species. Then print it, paint bright colors, add textures and recycled materials to decorate its body. Place your creature into a shared vivarium that fills with color and tiny movements. Finish with a stop-motion workshop to make your insect walk and buzz on screen, learning about shape, texture and storytelling through hands-on play.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 14:30

Join a playful reading workshop that grows beyond the page. Build your own kamishibai theatre inspired by the paintings of Konrad Witz. Cut, paint and arrange colorful cards, then practice telling short scenes with rhythm and voice. Feel the paper rustle, see bright blues and greens, and move characters across panels. Work with friends to invent a story and bring images to life through sound, gesture and simple stagecraft.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 19:00

A performed reading by Alex Quicho and Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee that probes decapitation as both metaphor and material. Quicho, a London-based theorist and writer, blends critical writing, performative lecture and moving-image practice; Lee, artist and research director, works with new media, orality and public programming to examine post‑tropical environments, psychic rupture and neo‑gothic currents. The piece pairs rigorous theorizing with embodied voice and subtle sonic textures, creating an intimate, spectral atmosphere. Presented during a residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Thursday 9 April, 18:30

Guided thematic visit led by cultural mediator Isabelle Burkhalter, exploring representations of the paschal lamb across historical and contemporary artworks. The tour considers paintings, sculptures and ritual objects, examining the lamb’s symbolic roles in religious ritual, domestic tradition and visual culture. Attention falls on artists’ approaches to iconography and materiality, and on how imagery negotiates sacred meaning and popular celebration. The visit invites reflection on continuity and transformation in collective remembrance.

In French.

7 – 9 April

Create, print and animate insect friends. Start by imagining and modeling your own fantastic insect in 3D, inspired by real rainforest species. Then print it, paint bright colors, add textures and recycled materials to decorate its body. Place your creature into a shared vivarium that fills with color and tiny movements. Finish with a stop-motion workshop to make your insect walk and buzz on screen, learning about shape, texture and storytelling through hands-on play.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 17 April

Make a pocket almanac full of stories, drawings, crosswords, recipes and collectible postcards. In a series of workshops, participants experiment with printmaking techniques, play creative writing games and learn simple bookmaking methods to shape their own small journal. Sessions encourage playful collaboration, colourful illustrations and hands‑on discovery as children turn ideas into a printed object to share with family.

Kids ages 6–12.

Saturday 11 April, 11:00

Join a convivial gathering of Swiss winemakers for tastings, bottle sales and the discovery of recent primeur cuvées. The event brings together producers from several cantons for shared tasting sessions, free introductory tasting workshops, live concerts and communal food stalls serving fondue, boards, burgers and tapas. It’s aimed at adults (18+) while organisers also announce children’s activities on site. The atmosphere emphasises community, conversation and convivial discovery.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

12 March – 11 April

Terre de Crète presents a photographic exploration of portraiture and its limits. The series transplants specimens of Cretan flora onto small mounds of earth, arranged and lit in a studio-register that evokes Irving Penn’s restrained still life. Through meticulous composition and tactile detail, the works probe the border between botanical study and human portrait, inviting reflection on staging, scale and the politics of representation.

Opening during the Nuit des Bains, Thursday 12 March, 18:00.

28 January – 23 December

This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.

In French.

Thursday 9 April, 14:30

Join a playful reading workshop that grows beyond the page. Build your own kamishibai theatre inspired by the paintings of Konrad Witz. Cut, paint and arrange colorful cards, then practice telling short scenes with rhythm and voice. Feel the paper rustle, see bright blues and greens, and move characters across panels. Work with friends to invent a story and bring images to life through sound, gesture and simple stagecraft.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

Thursday 9 April, 19:00

A performed reading by Alex Quicho and Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee that probes decapitation as both metaphor and material. Quicho, a London-based theorist and writer, blends critical writing, performative lecture and moving-image practice; Lee, artist and research director, works with new media, orality and public programming to examine post‑tropical environments, psychic rupture and neo‑gothic currents. The piece pairs rigorous theorizing with embodied voice and subtle sonic textures, creating an intimate, spectral atmosphere. Presented during a residency curated by Jade Meili Barget.

7 – 19 April

Eric Eriston Winarto presents a body of small oil paintings that treat the Swiss landscape as memory and pictorial research. Executed largely in A4 format, these fragmentary paintings—hills veiled in smoke, metallic roads, nocturnal scenes with phantom headlights, bluish forests—oscillate between observation and abstraction. Drawing on the legacy of Turner and Hodler, Winarto probes perception, tension and balance, using controlled yet enigmatic brushwork to suggest storms, glaciers and mist. The project questions how intimate, poetic images emerge from fleeting atmospheric states.

7 – 12 April

Directed by Richard Gauteron and written by Hervé Devolder, Succès Reprise is a delightfully cunning vaudeville that folds theatre into life. Three actors rehearse a hit play in which a woman leaves her husband for his lover, while offstage romantic entanglements mirror and complicate those roles. The piece balances sharp comedy, backstage intrigue and thorny financial stakes, staging mise en abyme with precision and warmth. Produced by Théâtre Marathon, it arrives as a celebrated Off d’Avignon success.

In French.

Thursday 9 April, 18:30

Guided thematic visit led by cultural mediator Isabelle Burkhalter, exploring representations of the paschal lamb across historical and contemporary artworks. The tour considers paintings, sculptures and ritual objects, examining the lamb’s symbolic roles in religious ritual, domestic tradition and visual culture. Attention falls on artists’ approaches to iconography and materiality, and on how imagery negotiates sacred meaning and popular celebration. The visit invites reflection on continuity and transformation in collective remembrance.

In French.

7 – 9 April

Create, print and animate insect friends. Start by imagining and modeling your own fantastic insect in 3D, inspired by real rainforest species. Then print it, paint bright colors, add textures and recycled materials to decorate its body. Place your creature into a shared vivarium that fills with color and tiny movements. Finish with a stop-motion workshop to make your insect walk and buzz on screen, learning about shape, texture and storytelling through hands-on play.

In French. Kids ages 8 and up.

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Cool fact: The e-MEG app serves as a digital twin of the permanent exhibition, providing an audio guide and detailed descriptions along with photographs of all displayed objects.

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Cool fact: The MAMCO is the epicenter of the “Nuit des Bains”, held three times a year.  During this event, the district around the museum is transformed into a large gallery and attracts thousands of art lovers and sightseers each night.

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Cool fact: On the first Sunday of each month, the Ariana Museum opens its temporary exhibitions to the public.

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