Nestled in the heart of Geneva’s Old Town, the Museum of Art and History ranks among Switzerland’s largest museums. Boasting a collection of around 650,000 objects spanning applied arts, fine arts, and archaeology across five floors, the museum embraces a dynamic and innovative approach to showcase its treasures through unexpected exhibitions. Annually, it hosts approximately ten temporary exhibitions, frequently inviting contemporary artists to contribute. The museum organizes a variety of surprising events, including yoga classes in the galleries and after-work parties.
An itinerant concert that guides audiences through curated spaces to encounter the music of women composers alongside paintings by female artists. Combining live chamber performance, spoken context and intimate encounters, the walk alternates contemplative pieces with moments of discovery, highlighting diverse compositional voices and visual narratives. A small ensemble and guest musicians frame each stop with attentive playing, inviting listeners to link sound and image in a reflective, immersive atmosphere.
Presented as a musical guided tour, this performance traces a path through museum collections where works by women composers converse with paintings created by women of the same era. Performed in the galleries by harpist Laudine Dard, cellist Clément Dami and soprano Amelia Feuer, the programme weaves voice and strings into a delicate, resonant soundscape that animates the exhibits. Intimate pacing and attentive listening reveal intertwined destinies of overlooked creators, offering reflective and sensory encounters. Presented within the Festival Les Inoubliables.
In French.
Led by a Feldenkrais practitioner and a cultural mediator, the session draws on somatic practice and museum mediation to foreground bodily awareness in encountering artworks.
Participants explore the permanent fine-arts collection through guided, movement-based attention, examining how posture, gesture and spatial perception shape interpretation. The workshop investigates sensory habits and reveals new ways to relate to art through embodied observation.
In French.
Presented within the Festival Les Inoubliables, this guided musical walk pairs works by women composers with paintings by female artists of the same periods. Performed in the exhibition spaces, harpist Laudine Dard, cellist Clément Dami and soprano Amelia Feuer weave live music that enlivens the visual works, while a minimalist sound and lighting approach highlights textures and resonances. The program illuminates shared lives, artistic dialogue and obscured histories, creating an intimate, reflective atmosphere.
In French.
Choreographed by Ela Franscella and created with MOPS DanceSyndrome during a five-day residency, MuseOM# explores a mysterious balance between the savage and the sage. Movement meets imagination and meditation in a compact, transformative journey, framed by live cello by Michel Thouzeau. Drawing on the exhibition Observatoires — Carte blanche à John M Armleder and works from the MAH collection, the piece favors tactile textures, subtle phrasing and contemplative atmospheres that invite sensory immersion.
Join lively mornings where tiny fingers bring animals to life. Little hand-puppets dance and invite children into John’s world full of surprises and sing-along rhymes. Touch soft textures, follow bright colours and playful movements as animals chirp and rustle. Children explore sounds, stories and simple actions, clap and mimic gestures. This hands-on experience sparks curiosity, warm laughter and gentle learning through play.
In French. Kids ages 2–4.
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