8 October – 28 February

Why? It Matters

Free

Why? It Matters invites visitors to engage with the debates and reflections shaping the future of particle physics. Through immersive installations, audiovisual displays and interactive exhibits, the exhibition examines fundamental scientific questions, proposed accelerator projects, technological challenges and the social and local impacts of big science. It highlights international collaboration, ethical questions and the processes that guide research priorities, encouraging visitors to consider what matters when imagining the future of science.

Esplanade des Particules,
1, Switzerland

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Photo Credit: CERN Science Gateaway

17 September – 29 October

Transparences, saison III, Dreams

Art & Exhibits

Fondation WRP

Artists Ana D and Noora K present a dreamlike photographic project probing transparency, memory and perception. Through layered photographs, lenticular prints and sculptural extensions of the image, the duo uses superposition, diffusion and formal alteration to reveal overlapping temporalities and interior images.
The works deploy spatial configurations where fragments of lived experience shift, associate and recombine, positioning photography as a territory of projection and transformation. Curated by Myriam Bongard‑Stadler, Dreams navigates the border between sleep and wakefulness.

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Permanent exhibition

Discover Voltaire’s home

Art & Exhibits

Les Délices

Voltaire lived here — and that alone makes Les Délices worth knowing about. The historic residence houses manuscripts, artworks, and documents related to the philosopher and the Enlightenment. Access is more limited than at a conventional museum, so it works best as a special-visit recommendation.

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Permanent exhibition

The Order of Malta: History & Heritage

Art & Exhibits

Musée de Compesières

Tucked inside the historic Commanderie de Compesières, this unusual collection traces the military and humanitarian history of the Order of Malta through uniforms, paintings, manuscripts, medals and coins. A niche museum with a setting to match — visits are by appointment, so a little planning is required.

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17 September – 7 November

The Darkroom, Dye Lab & Kiln

Art & Exhibits

Taste Contemporary

An exhibition presenting work by Garry Fabian Miller, Ptolemy Mann and Marit Tingleff, curated by Sarah Griffin. Across photography, weaving and ceramics, the show explores the darkroom, the dye lab and the kiln as sites of material transformation. The artists draw on deep embodied knowledge and long practice, using process, environment and material behaviour to shape outcomes. The works probe attention to texture, colour and time, revealing subtle relations between technique and the natural conditions that inform each practice.

Opening: Thursday 17 September, 18:00

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18 February – 23 December

Nature never deceives us: Jean-Jacques Rousseau herbarium

Art & Exhibits

Jardin botanique

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s herbarium, compiled in the 1770s for the printer-bookseller Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, is presented through preserved pressed specimens, its original catalogue and related botanical publications. The historical collection combines scientific observation and aesthetic arrangement, revealing Enlightenment approaches to collecting, classification and the popularisation of plant study. Detailed notes and annotations illuminate Rousseau’s techniques and the materiality of specimens, inviting reflection on how personal curiosity and scholarly networks shaped early modern natural history.

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18 September – 31 October

Pierre André Ferrand

Art & Exhibits

Skopia Art Contemporain

Swiss artist Pierre André Ferrand presents a restrained body of work that examines the conditions of image-making and the illusionistic nature of painting. The show brings together oils on canvas and works on paper, employing a deliberate economy of means, pared visual codes, and an intimate awareness of artistic limits. For more than thirty years his practice has pursued an intellectual and spiritual enquiry, inviting a slow, contemplative viewing that seeks out potential and subtle perceptual shifts.

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