Discover the historic monument, the museum and its temporary exhibitions in the exceptional setting of the former residence of the Counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Genevois-Nemours.

Museum of watchmaking and bar turning  

PRECISION TREASURES 

A journey through the history of time measurement and into the infinite world of precision

Inventing new techniques, adapting musical instruments to record and reproduce sounds, multiplying sound possibilities under the fingers of the same person, imagining the most audacious musical machines capable of doing without human beings, these are some of the -some of the dreams and fantasies that led ingenious inventors to create mechanical musical instruments, incredible marvels of science and art.

Since the publication of its scientific and cultural project in 2015, resulting in particular in a reorganization of the teams and a redesigned governance, the Natural History Museum and the Museum of the History of Science are now united under the same scientific and cultural entity – Muséum Geneva - with two complementary geographical sites, in Malagnou and the Perle du lac.