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Greenland 1912

12 November 2022 – 12 March 2023

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Switzerland in the Making

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Current blog posts

Secret support for Mary Stuart

Beatriz Chadour-Sampson

26. January 2023

Rings can be more than simply adornment, expression of personal sentiment or symbols of status, they can also conceal or openly show allegiance to a political cause. In some cases, such affiliations could have dangerous consequences, even death.

Victims of Labour – a memorial that broke the mould

Barbara Basting

24. January 2023

Artists were among the many to draw inspiration from the opening of the Gotthard railway tunnel 140 years ago. Prominent Ticino sculptor Vincenzo Vela created a contemporaneous memorial to those lost during its construction, entitled Victims of Labour. This key work was not particularly well received at the time, however.

The dancing Sun King

Murielle Schlup

19. January 2023

French king Louis XIV liked to use dance as a way of projecting his absolute power. A year before his glorious coronation, he embodied the rising sun – dressed as the sun god, Apollo – in the centre of the planetary system.