Date selection [Ethnography Museum of Geneva | 11.06.2025 - 14:00 | Racism and museums: let's discuss it, from 14 years old] - Musée d'ethnographie de Genève

Secondary I & II

A visit during which a discussion space is opened up to address the issue of racism by evoking the role of the museum institution in its construction, and inviting participants to question their own posture towards racism. Through various activities that encourage observation and reflexivity, participants reflect on how "races" have been invented and justified by institutions such as museums, through the construction of the image of the other, the strange, the exotic, which feeds differentiation and the prejudices at the root of discrimination mechanisms. Students will also understand the role and position of Switzerland in the global history of modern racism (in relation to colonization and slavery) and how these representations are perpetuated and socially transmitted to us.

Visits are led by the association Dialogue en route.

Practical informations

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Days: see calendar below
• Timetable: see calendar below
• Free for all classes from the canton of Geneva
• CHF 50 for classes from outside Geneva
• Access to the permanent exhibition is free
• Accessible to people with reduced mobility