Red Cross Museum
Humanitarian action
- The mission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum is to promote understanding of the history, current events and challenges of humanitarian aid by a wide audience in Switzerland and throughout the world.
- It also aims at encouraging contemporary artistic creation and developing innovative content with public and private partners from very different backgrounds and cultures.
Temporary exhibitions
An innovative new exhibition that explores the links between voices, heritage and humanitarian action, drawing on the audio archives and collections of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum.
Which voices do we keep, and why? Who speaks, who has the right to be heard? What role does music play in humanitarian action? What kinds of emotional bonds can be carried by the voice? What is the relationship between the act of hearing and the act of being heard? How can we hear a voice that produces no sound?
Contemporary recordings, posters, photographs and prisoners’ objects feature alongside historical artworks and new productions by Manal AlDowayan, Betty Danon, Marco Donnarumma, Gregor Hildebrandt, William Kentridge, Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, Piero Mottola, Julia Scher, and Dana Whabira. The exhibition aims to rediscover the sound archives of the ICRC, as well as those of the IFRC, with decolonial, feminist and inclusive perspectives, in order to achieve a constellation of relationships between sound, archives and humanitarian action
Special offer valid for all the exhibitions in the museum, permanent and temporary :
Entrance fee: 10 CHF (15 CHF)
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Building E, door 40, level 1.
Mon. to Fri. : 9am – 1:30pm / 2pm to 5pm
022 917 11 11
How can photography help us understand humanitarian principles?
We sometimes feel helpless and overwhelmed by images of crisis, violence, armed conflict and natural disasters. Dialogues On Humanity is a reaction to these feelings. This exhibition aims to offer new perspectives on the importance of humanitarian action. Divided into five themes based on the movement’s fundamental principles, the exhibited photgraphs invite us to step back, pause, reflect and feel.
We want to provide a space for discussion about humanity and its evolution. Each group of photographs is accompanied by four questions to which visitors can share their reactions and opinions.
This project has been developed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Photo Elysée Museum and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).