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International Red Cross
and Red Crescent Museum
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exhibit, and sculpture (inset)
a wall 100 m (330 ft) long Café-Restaurant de
on which stand 5-m- (16-ft-) l’Hôtel de Ville
tall statues of four of the
leaders of the Reformation in Exceptional traditional
Geneva: Guillaume Farel, Jean Genevois fare.
Calvin, Théodore de Bèze and  C4 ⌂ Grand-Rue 39
John Knox. Flanking the ∑ hdvglozu.ch
monument are mem orials 
to Martin Luther and Ulrich
Zwingli, two other leaders Le Jardin
of the Reformation.
Artfully presented
French cuisine.
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13 "' Fabri 8-10
Bodmer Foundation ∑ lerichemond.com
 5F ⌂ Route Martin 
Bodmer 19–21, Cologny
# 2–6pm Tue–Sun
∑ fondationbodmer.ch
Just north of the city centre,
in the Cologny area, is a large
villa with formal gardens and 14 '-
a unique mission: to be a MEG (Ethnographic
museum of the human mind. Museum of Geneva)
The Parc des Nations, which The 150,000 items include  A5 ⌂ Blvd Carl-Vogt 65
surrounds the UNO, is planted ancient Egyptian papyrus # 11am–6pm Tue–Sun
with trees and decorated with books of the dead and pages ∑ ville-ge.ch/meg
in teresting sculptures. bearing the handwritten scrib-
blings of William Shakespeare. Opened in 2014, MEG has
Also on view are a Gutenberg already won awards, both
12 Bible and Gottfried Liebnitz’s for its innovative architecture
and for its theme of human
copy of Sir Isaac Newton’s
Parc des Bastions ground breaking Principia diversity – amply exhibited
Mathematica, complete with by costumes, folk music
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his cramped margin notes. and workshops.
Created in the 18th century,
the Parc des Bastions lies just
outside the ramparts on the
south side of the city. Along
the eastern edge of the park
is the Mur des Réformateurs
(Reformation Wall), which was
erected in 1909 to mark the
400th anniversary of the birth
of Jean Calvin and the 350th
anniversary of the foundation
of Geneva’s Academy, the city’s
fa mous Protestant school. The
monument takes the form of

The sleek modern building
of the MEG (Ethnographic
Museum of Geneva)
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