There Hague Conventionsigned 70 years ago, ratified by Switzerland in 1962, is the first multilateral treaty dedicated to the protection of cultural property in the event of conflicts, looting, natural or accidental disasters. Faced with these threats, what responsibility do museums have?
Protection of cultural property (PBC)
The selection of works proposed in this exhibition also illustrates well the fundamental mission of safeguarding cultural heritage of the museum that its role of refuge for items temporarily entrusted by third countries at war or victims of looting.
The protection of cultural property is explained around emblematic sets of the collection such as “la Léda” by Pradier and Geneva coins. The MAH collection also includes less spectacular but equally valuable objects from Tabo, Sudansite excavated by Geneva archaeologists in the 1960s and 1970s. These objects, preserved in the MAH collections, are the only ones present in a museum outside Sudan. By their presence in Geneva, they escaped looting recent from the Khartoum museum.
This exhibition also highlights 44 works from Gaza kept in Geneva with the 529 objects over which the MAH watches since the exhibition “Gaza at the crossroads of civilizations” held at the MAH in 2007.
The missions of the ALIPH foundation,international alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict zonesis also highlighted, by the presentation of projects deployed in Mosul, Iraq or even in Ukraine and Timbuktu. Finally, the exhibition allows to explain and promote the strategy for the Protection of cultural property of the City of Geneva for the benefit of its heritage institutions.
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