Sights Geneva, Switzerland

Ariana Museum Geneva or the Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass (Ariana Museum or Swiss Museum of Ceramics & Glass). Ariana Museum has one of the richest and most beautiful collections of ceramics and glass in Europe, with more than 16,000 samples of pottery and stone items, pottery and porcelain , about 2,000 of them are blown, engraved or cut glass. The collection represents 7 centuries crafts from the Middle Ages to the present day, in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In itself, the building in Neo-Renaissance ornament looks like a large park.

Address: Avenue de la Paix 10, 1202 Geneva

Hours: daily from 10.00 to 17.00, except Tuesday.

Buses: 5-8-11-14-18-FVZ .. Open line: 418-34-33

Geneva Museum Barbier-Mueller (Barbier-Muller Museum). Your eyes will view the prehistoric people of beauty, through the sculptures, masks, jewelry, ritual accessories, fabrics, ornaments of all kinds, as well as through the forms, styles and materials. All this is presented in amazing Barbier-Muller Museum, with its unique collection of distant civilizations around the world: Africa, Oceania, Indonesia and America, mainly sculptures and stone monuments.

Address: Rue Jean Calvin 10, 1204 Geneva.

Hours: 11.00-17.00 daily, except Monday.

Buses: 3-5, or tram 12, go to the stop Place du Molard and walk to the Old City or bus 17, to go out and Hotel-de-Ville.

Geneva Collection Bora (Baur Collections) in the museum awaits an unforgettable journey through ten centuries of Japanese and Chinese art collections gathered by Alfred Bohr with the greatest care and elegance. Porcelain, stone ware, jade trinkets, manuscripts, some of them very rare, replace each other with grace and elegance.

Address: Rue Munier-Romilly 8, 1206 Geneva.

Hours: 14.00-18.00, except Mondays.

Buses 1-8.

Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of Geneva (Botanical Gardens and Conservatory)

28 hectares of plants, trees, flowers. Gardens of stones between the streams and waterfalls offer a world of flora. Greenhouses contain tropical plants from 5 continents.

Address: Chemin de l'Imperatrice 1, 1292 Chambesy (Geneva)

Hours: April-September: daily 08.00-19.30. October-March: daily 9.30-17.00. Greenhouses: daily 09.30-11.00 and 14.00-16.30.

Buses 4-18.

Geneva Museum of Art and History (Art and History Museum) 7,000 sq. Exhibition opening hours of sectors Archeological treasures, fine and applied arts. The first of these, Archeology, a whole storehouse of local and regional history, ancient Egypt and the Middle East, Etruscan, Greek and Roman civilizations. Sector of Fine Arts presents more than 400 pictures, covering the period from the Renaissance to the present: Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cezanne, Modigliani, Chagall, Picasso and many others, including the work of Swiss artists, such as Ferdinand Hodler.

Address: Rue Charles-Galland 2, 1206 Geneva.

Hours: Open daily from 10.00 to 17.00, except Monday.

Buses: 1-3-5-8-17.

Museum of Ethnography in Geneva (Ethnographical Museum) - one of the most important and richest collections of Switzerland is 60,000 artifacts, 20,000 photos and thousands of documents. The main building offers a tour of the 5 continents, in their cultural and artistic traditions. The extraordinary wide collection acquired an international reputation, particularly with the Aboriginal people of the Amazon, Africa and Australia, the culture of Nepal, China and Japan, and ethnic music.

Address: Boulevard Carl-Vogt 65-67, 1205 Geneva.

Hours: Daily: 10.00-17.00. Buses: 1-4-32.

Natural History Museum of Geneva (Natural History Museum) - one of the most famous in Europe. 2 kilometers four floors you count 3,500 mammals, birds, vertebrates and invertebrates, countless stuffed native fauna, exotic destinations and marine inhabitants. Also brought to your attention the majestic dinosaurs.

Hours: daily 9.30-17.00, except Monday, 25 December and 1 January.

Buses: 1-8 (stop Tranchees & Museum), 20-27 (Museum), 12-16 (Vellereuse).

UN in Geneva, when you go through the gates of the Palace of Nations (Palais des Nations), you get to the international land, a land without borders, which each year welcomes 20,000 delegates most of these Nations, where 3,000 employees work on the same mission: peace, security and human dignity.

Museum of Patek Philippe (Patek Philippe Museum) is located in a building constructed in the early twentieth century, the Museum of Patek Philippe watch collection is important and enamel craftsmen of Geneva, Switzerland and Europe, starting from the XVI century and until the twentieth. Library, entirely devoted to the clock, the whole exhibition arrangement, consisting of hours, antique jukeboxes, and much more interesting and entertaining.

Address: Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 7 1205 Geneva.

Hours: Tuesday-Friday 14.00-17.00, Saturday 10.00-17.00 Closed: Sunday and Monday.

Buses: 1-4.

Museum of Lake Geneva (Lake of Geneva / Leman Museum). An astonishing discovery of the origins of flora and fauna of Lake Geneva.

Hours: April-October: Tuesday-Sunday 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-18.00, November-March: Tuesday-Sunday 14.00-18.00, except Mondays.

National Car Museum (National Automobile Museum) - cars from yesterday and today - story of cars, told with the help of more than 500 prestigious models.

Address: Geneva-Palexpo, 1218 Grand-Saconnex/Geneva.

Hours: 10.00-18.00 daily, except Monday. Buses: 5-10-18.

Holidays Geneva
Of all the events that take place in Geneva, no one can match the holiday Escalade, which is celebrated on December 9-11. This is one of the oldest and most popular patriotic celebrations of the city, marking the victory over the forces of urban Duke of Savoy in 1602 when the last attempt to regain his patrimony. Since this event involves a lot of legends, one of the most famous tells of mother Royer, who poured on skulk Savoy soldiers full pot of hot vegetable soup. By tradition, the feast Escalade on the streets selling cups of hot vegetable soup and a pastry shop windows displayed pots of chocolate and nougat, painted in the colors of Geneva and filled with marzipan vegetables. The culmination of the festival is an evening-dress parade with lighted torches. Here you can see the musketeers and horsemen, flutists and drummers, all action takes place to the accompaniment of military marches, firecrackers and gunfire. Many townspeople also dress up in costumes of the era and enjoy the carnival atmosphere of the holiday.

International Festival of the Trees and illumination "held in Geneva in 2001. In early December from all over Europe to Switzerland come to the artists to take part in an unusual light decoration of trees, mainly in the central part of the city. The festival presents contemporary exhibition of imagination and creativity, where trees play a role of the museum of the city walls. The events of the festival, which lasts a month, include parties, street performances and competitions, the most important of the contests - is, of course, competition for "best tree", he appreciates the outstanding artists.

In May in Geneva is "Day of wine cellars." This kind of open day, when hundreds of wine cellars of the city and its environs invite visitors for wine tasting.

Music Festival in Geneva, which is held in June, turns the streets into a huge stage. They held hundreds of concerts of all styles and genres - from rock to the classics, performed by local and foreign musicians.

In August, noted a "celebration of Geneva," it is a kind of culmination of the summer season and lasts for several days. Crowds of people gather on the shores of Lake Geneva, where concerts of different directions, fairs, shows and a parade on water. Grand finale of the festival is a fantastic musical fireworks display.