Two hundred years ago, the Academic Museum of Geneva, the ancestor of the Museum, was born. Since then, scientists, men and women, have been studying current and extinct animals and minerals with an ever renewed curiosity and meticulousness. Today, as in the past, these specialists describe living things and try to understand the links of relationship between animal species, as well as the conditions of formation of minerals.

No less than 15 million specimens and objects occupy the Museum's collections. To celebrate this bicentenary, the scientists have chosen 200 of them from their immense collections. Big as well as tiny, very rare, fascinating as well as strange, local as well as exotic, very old as well as more recent, because specimens are still being collected today!

Two hundred reasons to stroll through two hundred years of natural history research in Geneva and also the opportunity to listen to the Museum's scientists talk about their work in an original poetic work created by the illustrator and director Raphaël Haab.