Living the high life

Rejuvenated Geneva museums

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As a benchmark institution, Geneva’s monumental Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (MAH) is a depository for an encyclopaedic collection of some 650,000 objects spanning archaeology, fine arts, applied arts, and watchmaking. It’s one of the largest museums in Switzerland, but it has reached maximum capacity for its current building, which was inaugurated in 1910. After a false start in 2016, efforts to restore and enlarge the building (by 6,000 m²) are finally underway, with the notable addition of a campus museum and a scenic garden. The next step is to launch a call for architectural proposals in September, with a 2030 anticipated completion date. In parallel, preparations have begun to expand the Natural History Museum, which should be completed in 2027.

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