Thirty years on from its opening, the Alimentarium is preparing to close temporarily from 24 August in order to undergo an unprecedented transformation. Ahead of its reopening scheduled for June 2016, the museum held a press conference recently to launch the Alimentarium Academy platform, a totally new online learning ecosystem, and to provide a preview of the new scenography of the new permanent exhibition. As the Alimentarium makes a definitive turn towards digital media, it is positioning itself as a globally unique Centre of Competence, dedicated to matters of food and nutrition.
A pioneering online learning ecosystem
Driven by the desire to make its expertise and resources available to as many people as possible, the museum has created its Alimentarium Academy, a pioneering educational platform aimed at pupils and their teachers. Specialists and experts in digital education designed this new venture around three axes: online lesson material that allows children to learn while having fun; online courses aimed at teachers wishing to devise food and nutrition-related lessons with activities, games and videos and, finally, a mobile app, which encourages reflection and dialogue between parents and children on the topic of food. This complementary and interconnected educational programme is available on smartphones and tablets, in French, German and English.
A season outside, 1998, Amar Kanwar © Amar Kanwar
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has just opened a new temporary exhibition entitled “Experiments with Truth: Ghandi and the Images of Nonviolence”.
Organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, the exhibition features a selection of around one hundred works of art, documents and photographs tracing Ghandi’s personal, spiritual, ethical and political path. From the origins of his thinking to the extent of his legacy, the exhibition promotes a dialogue between cultures, arts and techniques: tantric paintings, extremely rare Koranic parchments and Jain sculptures feature alongside works by contemporary artists such as Yves Klein, Dan Flavin, Ai Wei Wei and Amar Kanwar.
In partnering The Menil Collection, one of the most important private collections in the USA, founded by Jean and Dominique Menil, the aim of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum is to encourage reflection on the nature of nonviolence and to create space for dialogue between the exhibits, which come from a wide range of historical, cultural and aesthetic contexts.
© Swiss National Museum
Throughout 2015, the Swiss National Museum is reappraising three dates in Swiss history in the light of recent research: 1315 at the Forum of Swiss History in Schwyz, 1515 at the National Museum in Zurich, and 1815 at Château de Prangins.
As part of this reappraisal, the Swiss National Museum – Château de Prangins is presenting a new temporary exhibition entitled “Switzerland reshaped. From Napoleon to the Congress of Vienna”. Running from 13 March to 13 September 2015, the exhibition is using innovative and original materials such as vox pops and specially recorded interviews with historians, to explore the creation of a new Switzerland at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815). It also links to issues of contemporary relevance, such as the meaning of neutrality and independence for a Switzerland at the heart of Europe.
Would you like to relive great Olympic moments? Feel the pulse of the champions? Discover the creative flair of the host cities?
The world of the Games with its many facets is now open up to you at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. If you haven’t visited the museum since it was closed for renovations just over a year ago, then now is the time to see it. With a major new temporary exhibition opening on 19th February 2015, entitled The Olympic Games: Behind the Screen, visitors now have the unique opportunity to find out what goes on behind the scenes, when images from the Olympic Games are broadcast all around the world.
New temporary exhibition, The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen
19.02.2015 – 26.01.2016
Every edition of the Olympic Games has its innovations and unique aesthetic. The temporary exhibitions at the Museum are designed to show the Games in all their diversity – and the latest exhibition, The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen, is no exception.
Sanjeev Bhuttan, co-found of Spordy
A new website has been launched in Switzerland, with the aim of bringing sports enthusiasts together in a single, dedicated online community.
Called Spordy, the new online platform offers a range of services focusing on health and fitness for amateur sports enthusiasts, professional trainers and sports coaches, as well as sports clubs in Switzerland. These include:
- Find a buddy: A great way to connect with people to practice sport or for general fitness purposes.
- Find a trainer (coming soon): A quick way to find fitness trainers or sports coaches based on a user's location and purpose.
- Find a club: A handy tool for researching information about local sports and fitness clubs in Switzerland.
- Groups: A useful service, enabling members to join or create any sporting group of their interest. Within the groups, members can post group activities, have discussions, and post photos.
- Events: Lots of information on sporting events where people can see at a glance which events are happening in Switzerland.
- Members' blog: A helpful platform where members can discuss anything and everything to do with health, fitness and sports. From nutritional tips to the best skiing resorts in Europe, Spordy actively encourages members to engage in such discussions.
