Musee de la Croix Rouge et du Croissant Rouge (Geneva / Switzerland)

Description: Address: 17, Avenue de la Paix / 1202 Geneva / Switzerland

Newest Review: ... side which was closed (it was a Sunday) and a temporary exhibition of photographs beyond it. On the wall behind the ticket desk was inscribed a large quotation in French which - with my limited schoolgirl French - I translated as 'Each person is responsible before everyone for everything'. Now how's that for sense of personal responsibility? I'd like to see that in the House of Commons next ... more

... time they are debating MP's 'allowances'. ~ The Exhibition ~ Admission to the museum costs 10 Swiss Francs which is about 6 pounds, give or take a bit. There are free museums in Geneva but I honestly didn't feel that this should be one - when you vis...more

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Musee de la Croix Rouge et du Croissant Rouge (Geneva / Switzerland): The International Red Cross - Superheroes for our Times (1703 words)
by - written on 19/05/09 (Very useful, 125 readings)
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~ Confessing My Ignorance ~ Like many people, I've never given much thought to the Red Cross. It's not that I'm ignorant of world affairs but it's the sort of organisation many of us take for granted. The 'Geneva Conventions' are similar; a phrase we all trot out whenever someone somewhere is doing something that commonsense says is naughty but not something I really know much about. Other than a vague sense that when the four horsemen of the apocalypse saddle up and head off to visit some godforsaken part of the world you can guarantee that the Red Cross will be close behind, I can honestly say it was an organisation I took for granted on a massive scale. I ... Read the complete review