Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny (CH) 5 April 2014 - 31 August 2014
Alexandrie la divine
The Fondation Martin Bodmer, Bibliothèque Laurentienne and the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art have pooled their treasures and their efforts in an attempt to render the remarkable destiny of this ancient city
Curators : Frédéric Möri (FB) and Robert Steven Bianchi (FGA)
For almost a millennium, during the Greek and Roman eras, ‘Alexandria the divine’ was the axis of the world, and the cradle of an emerging globalization of knowledge and belief.
The exhibition brings together a series of precious papyri; illuminated manuscripts and rare prints; sumptuous archaeological objects (from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art), and photographic prints of major archaeological sites.

Artworks in focus
August 2019 Archaeology
Relief with the epithets and names of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great assumed the reins of government immediately upon the assassination of his father, Philip II, king of Macedonia. Shortly, thereafter, according to the Roman historian Arrian, Alexander declared war upon Persia by stating that he wished to avenge the Greeks for the devastation wrought upon them by the Persians, who initiated the Peloponnesian Wars without any prior provocation from the Greeks.
April 2018 Archaeology
Stater of Nectanebo II
July 2017 Archaeology
A Manuscript for the History of Ancient Egypt
An exciting new special exhibition partnership between the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art and Musée de Normandie at the Château de Caen focusing on the Norman passion for Egypt in the 19th century…a page from the very notebook written by the man who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion himself…and another fascinating link between Jean-François Champollion and the city of Geneva …
Works on loan

Relief du dieu Sérapis Agathos Daimon et de la déesse Isis Agathé-Tyché
Ier - IIe siècle après J.-C.