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The Institut et Musée Voltaire was founded in 1954, Geneva's music library, now called La Musicale, in 1962, and the Centre d'iconographie in 1993. In 1999, the library was added to the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance .
Lenin settled in Geneva in 1903 and applied for admission on December 12, 1904. Among other things, it allowed him to escape the many other Russian refugees around the Public Library and to find the calm that was essential for his work. Paul Birukoff, former secretary to Leon Tolstoy, sponsored him. In his book "My Life with Lenin", his wife ...
The United Nations Library & Archives Geneva is part of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), located in the Palace of Nations. The library and archives open their doors not only to UN staff and members of the diplomatic corps but to researchers, students and practitioners from all walks of life.
The Swiss National Library (at 5.1 million volumes) and Basel University library (at 3.1 million volumes) are the country's largest. Switzerland also has a comprehensive public system with 2,344 branches holding a total of 28 million volumes. Important specialized institutions include the Swiss Federal Archives and the United Nations Office at ...
The library of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – in French: la bibliothèque du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) – is a public library based at the headquarter of the international organization in Geneva, Switzerland. It was apparently founded around the time of the ICRC's inception in 1863.
Brood XIII 17-year cicadas on a tree outside the Lake Geneva Public Library on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Cicadas can be heard throughout Lake Geneva The cicadas are at their loudest between 10 a.m ...
In 1990, for the centennial of Spir's death in Geneva, the Geneva Public Library organized an exhibition of African Spir's corpus [30] and published the analytical catalogue. [12] Many of Spir's books have not been entirely sold and are still available in their first or second edition (in German, French, Italian, English, or Spanish translations).
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