The city’s botanical gardens invite the public to explore their 28-hectare expanse, free of charge, all year long. Visitors can partake in informative guided tours to deepen their understanding of the botanical world, or engage in workshops and activities thoughtfully designed for children.
This educational escape game explores historical botany and applied pharmacognosy through immersive problem-solving. Players investigate archival clues, chemical properties and traditional remedies to identify a medicinal plant referenced in a 1715 letter and assess its potential against malaria. The experience emphasizes observation, hypothesis testing and collaborative analysis, revealing how historical knowledge and botanical methods contribute to modern drug discovery and public health thinking.
In French.
Explore the world of ferns and how they lived long before people. Touch soft fronds, spot delicate patterns, and listen to the whisper of leaves as you learn how these plants grow without flowers or seeds. Investigate tiny and giant varieties, compare shapes, and collect colors and textures. Finish by making a bright, hands-on craft that captures what you observed, using paint, paper and natural shapes to bring your discovery to life.
In French. Kids ages 6 and up.
Step into the life of a plant and discover how it senses the world. Explore how roots and stems find water and how leaves turn toward light. Feel textures, smell damp soil, and listen for tiny movements as you perform simple experiments and sensory investigations. Observe color changes, measure growth, and ask questions about how plants react when a leaf is removed. Hands-on activities and botanical explorations spark curiosity and teach how plants perceive their surroundings.
In French. Kids ages 8 and up.
Speakers include Flávio Borda D’Água (Conservateur, Bibliothèque de Genève), Estelle Fallet (Conservatrice, Musée d’art et d’histoire), Olivier Fichot (commissaire-priseur, Genève Enchères) and Patrick Bungener (Adjoint scientifique, Jardin Botanique de Genève). The session is moderated by journalist Huma Khamis Madden.
The roundtable examines the ethical and scientific challenges of auctioning cultural and scientific objects, using Rousseau’s herbarium as a case study. Participants investigate how high market prices restrict access to collections, explore best practices for preservation and scholarly access, and discuss ways to reconcile collectors’ interests with institutional and public research needs.
In French.
Dig into planting and discovery at a lively plant market. Walk between stalls of seedlings, herbs and colorful flowers. Hear gardeners sharing simple tips, smell fresh soil and taste local honey. In a hands-on potting workshop, children will pot a plant, feel soft earth, and take their own creation home. Bright colors, rustling leaves and cheerful voices make the day sensory and playful, sparking curiosity and confidence in caring for plants.
Stroll through rocky beds and cultivated plots on a gentle guided walk that brings you close to Geneva’s most threatened native plants. With the gardener Léonie Henry and scientist Daniel Comte, examine the delicate shapes, textures and ecological relationships of rare species, learning about their habitats and the pressures they face. The experience blends attentive observation with scientific insight, offering a quiet, communal rhythm of discovery and a renewed connection to local biodiversity and conservation efforts.
In French.
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