Online: represent the world, according to Perron and Reclus

Exhibitions Arts Cultures-En ligne: Représenter le monde, d’après Perron et Reclus
Represent the world, according to Perron and Recluse. The Geneva Cartographic Museum (1907-1929) Virtual Exhibition

At a time when digital technologies are supplanting traditional methods, the Geneva Library reconstitutes virtually, on the occasion of the 6th Swiss History Days, part of the cartographic museum created in 1907 in its Bastions by Charles Perron building two years After the death of his Master Elisha recluses. This museum will exist until 1929.

With a lot of facing, this panorama of documents gives us a state of geographic and cartographic knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century.

Let us stroll through the selection of cards made by Perron to illustrate the first stages of the representation of the world. Like the terrestrial globe designed by Reclus for the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900, but never achieved, this museum is one of the results of the fruitful collaboration established between the two men in the last quarter of the 19th century and the ambitious Reclus project to think in a radically new way what geography should be.

Organization: Geneva Library

Scientific committee: Flávio Borda d'Egua and Nicolas Schaetti

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  • Category

    Exhibitions Arts Cultures
  • Start date

    Sunday 03 Jul 2022 à 00:00
  • End date

    Friday 31 Mar 2023 à 23:45
  • Address

    Bibliothèque de Genève, Prom. des Bastions 1, 1205 Genève, Suisse

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Exhibitions Arts Cultures-Online: represent the world, according to Perron and Reclus