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Museum · Pregny hill (Colline de Pregny), Geneva, Canton of Geneva

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum

Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum is a museum of humanitarian action at Avenue de la Paix 17 in Geneva, close to the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Why go

This record is the museum, not the ICRC headquarters next to it and not the Red Cross Movement as an institution. The museum's history page says it was built near the ICRC headquarters on the Colline de Pregny after an architecture competition launched in 1979, opened on 29 October 1988 and reopened on 18 May 2013 after two years of work on the building. Its home page says the new permanent exhibition will explore humanitarian action through three periods in the history of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and that the current exhibition stays open while the changes are phased in between 2026 and 2028. The museum sells tickets on its own website.

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Geneva

Geneva is the capital of the canton of Geneva, which the City of Geneva's own pages describe as the European seat of the United Nations and the seat of the International Red Cross. XTOUR maps St. Pierre Cathedral, the Palais des Nations, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, the Museum of Art and History, the Reformation Wall and the Botanical Garden in the city.

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