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.
Jump into festive autumn days bursting with surprises. Explore bright colors and lively sounds through short presentations, moving visits, story readings, cinema moments, breakdance and hands-on creative workshops. Make, move and listen as you notice textures, rhythms and hidden details at every corner. Families team up to create, dance and imagine together, mixing play and discovery in every activity.
In French. Kids ages 3–5; kids ages 6 and up.
Join lively holiday afternoons filled with surprises and playful activities. Explore artworks, create colorful crafts, dance to beats, watch short films, and listen to lively readings. Move through spaces with guided movement visits, try breakdance steps, and make hands-on projects that sparkle with color and texture. Days are full of sound, motion, and bright shapes that spark imagination and shared family fun. Discover new ways to see, touch, and play.
In French. Kids ages 4 and up.
Swiss artist Martha Stettler presents a focused presentation of a single work that explores themes of agency, identity and artistic self-determination. The piece’s restrained yet powerful visual language, articulated through form, gesture and layered surfaces, invites reflection on the artist’s place within modernist practice and gendered art histories. Visitors may complement the presentation with an audio guide offering a queer reading of selected works. The session is conceived as an accessible thematic visit for all audiences.
Choreographed by Cindy Van Acker and created with textile artist Vanessa Riera, this défilé-performance gathers a mixed community of young people in migration, participants in artistic training and those described as ‘en rupture’. It centers on upcycling fabrics and collective empowerment, blending improvised, moment-driven movement with tactile costume interventions. The work strikes a close dialogue with surrounding artworks and the public, presented within the exhibition Observatoires: Carte blanche à John M Armleder and the 4th edition of the biennale Dance first. Think later.
In French.
Explore sculptures that seem to hold secret stories in this playful mini reading club. Children listen closely to the carved figures, discovering characters, textures and imagined histories through guided storytelling. After the tale, the group extends the experience with a hands-on creative activity where kids shape their own small sculptures or drawings inspired by what they heard. The session encourages listening, observation and imagination in a relaxed, social setting.
In French. Kids ages 6 and up.
Choreographed and created by Vanessa Riera, this défilé-performance brings together a mixed community of young people in migration, artistic trainees and youth experiencing social rupture, who prepared the work through workshops and perform as the runway cast. The creative team includes a musician, a scenographer, an assistant, a technician and a make-up artist. Reclaimed garments sourced from textile bins and a social wardrobe are reshaped into sculptural, elegant costumes. The piece blends fashion and choreography to explore belonging, identity and material transformation.
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