30 November 2007 – 30 March 2008

Heritage in danger - From Veronese to Picasso

Following the partial collapse of a cornice in one of the rooms of the Museum’s fine arts department, the entire floor concerned has been closed off to the public in order to carry out the necessary repair work. So that the masterpieces of the collection, one of the largest in Switzerland, should not remain inaccessible over the coming months, a selection of around a hundred paintings and pastels has been provisionally put on display in the temporary exhibit areas. The chronological timeline presents the Museum’s most important works from the Italian, Northern and French schools, in parallel to Swiss artists such as Vallotton and Hodler, Liotard, Saint-Ours, and the landscape painters Calame and Diday.
The exhibition also underlines the Museum’s renovation project, now a matter of urgency following a gestation period of several years and with the building’s hundredth anniversary coming up in 2010. The project notably includes an extension designed by architect Jean Nouvel.

Address

Musée d'art et d'histoire
Rue Charles-Galland 2
1206 Genève
phone +41 22 418 22 00
http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mahg

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

Erected between 1903 and 1910 and designed as an encyclopedic museum, it covers the whole of western culture, from its origins to the present days.

The three sectors of the museum comprise Archaeology (prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman); Fine Arts (some 400 paintings from the Renaissance to modern times, and sculptures by artists such as Houdon, Pradier, Rodin, Arp, Giacometti, Tinguely, etc.); Applied Arts (objects from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, such as furniture, textiles, pewterware, arms and armor).

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