Rath Museum – Anoher place to enjoy art

The first Swiss museum to be devoted to the fine arts, the Rath Museum displays large temporary exhibitions organised by the Art and History Museum. After one entire year of renovation works, the Museum reopened, so it is a good opportunity to admire it!

Built as a gift to the people of Geneva by two sisters, Jeanne-Françoise and Henriette Rath, and inaugurated in 1826, the museum was conceived as a “Temple of the Muses” embodying both French taste and the Italian style.

The museum currently exhibits international as well as Swiss art. Over the past decade it has housed more than 60 thematic and single-artist exhibitions. Special emphasis has been laid on archaeology and ancient art on the one hand (e.g. “Treasures of Islam”) and on modern and contemporary art on the other (”Bram van Velde”, “Markus Raetz” retrospectives, etc).

More recently, attention has been paid to the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler, with an exhibition on his Swiss landscapes has been created.

Most of the time, the exhibitions last between four to six months and visits with a guide take place on a particular day. They are very interesting, because they are made by a specialist of the masterpieces presented.

From March 31st to August 15th, 2010, the temporary exhibition “This is a Swiss Drawing (1990-2010)” is on. It focuses on contemporary drawings and the existence (or non-existence) of links between drawing and Swiss culture. The exhibition welcomes the works of forty artists from the different linguistic regions. Visitors are invited to discover the different branches of the medium, its deployment ranging from paper supports to digital technologies (vectorial drawing), its methods of installation and interventions.

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Rath Museum | Art & culture | Entrance CHF 10.00
Place Neuve 2 | Plainpalais | +41224183340
Tue & Thu – Sun 10:00 – 17:00, Wed 12:00 – 21:00 – Closed on Mondays