International Red Cross Museum

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum is a museum in Geneva.

I first visited this museum 23 years ago and was blown away. It was first multimedia curated museum that I had ever experienced. It has stayed with me all these years.

Well, 25 years after its opening, the Museum reopened its doors on 18 May 2013, after closing for 22 months for transformation.

The exhibition named "The Humanitarian Adventure" presents three contemporary problems through three distinct spaces; each created by a different architect: Defending human dignity (Gringo Cardia, Brazil), Reconstructing family links (Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso ), and Reducing natural risks (Shigeru Ban, Japan).

Although it gives pride of place to knowledge and reflection, the museography introduces strong emotion as a dimension in its story-telling. It is very compelling.