This workshop combines guided art observation with mindfulness meditation to foster a sensory encounter with Ferdinand Hodler’s paintings. Participants explore themes of spirituality, unity, and nature through close looking, group dialogue on artistic resonances, and a short breathing practice. The session examines how sustained attention changes perception of form, color and meaning, and offers practical contemplative techniques to deepen aesthetic awareness and personal reflection.
In French.
These Pilates sessions draw inspiration from artworks to promote wellbeing through movement, breath and mindful presence. The practice explores how visual art can shape bodily awareness, combining gentle physical exercises with breathwork to improve posture, reduce tension and enhance concentration. Participants examine posture alignment, controlled movement and embodied attention, gaining practical strategies to integrate mindful movement into daily routines and foster a calmer, more attentive relationship with their body and surroundings.
In French.
Discover hidden treasures from a museum’s graphic arts collection, including prints, drawings and rare books from Europe and beyond. An art historian welcomes visitors and offers close encounters with works on paper, facilitating insight into techniques, themes and historical context. This edition focuses on the notebooks and drawings of Rodolphe Töpffer, linked to his zigzag travels, and examines how sketching shaped his visual narratives.
In French.
Dr. Tamara El Hossny (paleontologist, University of Geneva), Prof. Lionel Cavin (paleontologist and museum curator), and Prof. Sébastien Castelltort (geologist and vice-rector) join moderator Huma Khamis, science journalist at RTS.
The documentary examines contemporary paleontological research from Swiss collections to Thailand’s exceptional fossil sites, investigating how scientists reconstruct ancient ecosystems, study extinctions, tectonics and environmental change, and explore the cultural and patrimonial significance of fossils as archives of Earth’s history.
In French.
Facilitated by Fabienne Regad, a bereavement support companion who accompanies bereaved people, together with a cultural mediator. Regad draws on practical experience in group listening and peer support.
This conversation explores personal experiences of loss, examining emotions, needs and coping practices in a respectful, secular and non-therapeutic setting. Participants are invited to share and listen, investigating communal modes of support, empathy and meaning-making around bereavement.
In French.
Historian Gérard Duc presents research grounded in a specially released object from the museum collection, placing watchmakers’ training within the 19th-century shift towards mechanization.
This talk examines major mutations in Geneva’s watchmaking industry, exploring how schools and craftsmen adapted techniques, how pedagogical practices preserved artisanal savoir-faire, and what these transformations reveal about technology, labor and cultural continuity and their legacy for contemporary craft and heritage studies.
In French.
On the bicentenary of engineer Louis Favre’s birth, this evening revisits the life and legacy of a pioneering Swiss railway engineer. The programme includes a musical interlude performed by the Orchestre et la Chorale des Trois‑Chêne, an audiovisual presentation tracing the extraordinary construction of the Gothard tunnel, and a conference examining Favre’s technical achievements and lasting influence on European railways. The night concludes with an outdoor artistic mapping projection.
In French.
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