Musée Ariana

The Musée Ariana, also known as Musée suisse de la céramique et du verre called ( Swiss museum of ceramics and glass), is a museum in the Swiss city of Geneva. It is dedicated to the ceramics and glass art, and includes approximately 20,000 objects from around seven centuries, from about 1300 to the present, which the representative of the historical, geographical, artistic and technical width glass and ceramic production in this period. The exhibition in this area represents the most important institutions in Europe and is the only one of its kind in Switzerland.

The museum is housed in a purpose-built 1877-1884 by architect Emile Grobéty and embossed with elements of neo-classicism and neo-Baroque building in Geneva, Avenue de la Paix near the Palais des Nations, the European headquarters of the United Nations. It was created for storing the private collection of Swiss art collector and patron Gustave Revilliod, who left it after his mother Ariane de la Rive named and 1891 with the plot of 36 hectares of the city of Geneva. Since 1934, the museum belongs to the association of the Geneva Art and History Museums ( Les Musées d' art et d' histoire Geneve ) under the leadership of the Musée d' art et d' histoire.

In the period following parts of the collection Revilliods were spun off into other museums in the city, from which a number of exhibits in the Musée Ariana was transferred in turn to focus in this way the orientation of the exhibition on glass and ceramics. In 1993, the museum was reopened after twelve years of work.