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Guide des musées suisses. Edition Reinhardt, 2010.

La nouvelle édition du Guide des musées suisses vient de paraître. L'Association des musées suisses (AMS) y présente tous les musées du pays. Dans sa première édition, sortie en 1965, le guide mentionnait un peu plus de 300 musées. Dans le recensement de 2010, la barre des 1000 musées est pour la première fois dépassée : la 11e édition de l'ouvrage en mentionne en effet 1073.

Plus qu'un simple recensement, le Guide des musées suisses, richement illustré, propose un véritable parcours culturel à travers la Suisse : Outre une description des collections présentées au public, il donne toutes les informations nécessaires à la visite : les coordonnées, les heures d'ouverture et le site web, bien sûr, mais également les langues dans lesquelles les expositions sont accessibles.

Des pictogrammes indiquent en plus si l'institution est facilement accessible en transports publics, si elle dispose d'un parking, d'une cafétéria, d'une librairie, d'un accès facile pour les personnes à mobilité réduite et si le musée accepte le Passeport musées suisses. Enfin les musées particulièrement adaptés aux familles et ceux qui ont été récompensés dans la cadre du forum européen des musées sont également mentionnés et recommandés.

Une publication de l'Association des musées suisses, aux éditions Reinhardt. Disponible dès maintenant en librairie, dans les musées suisses et sous http://www.reinhardt.ch.

11e édition 2010
649 pages, avec illustrations en couleurs
couverture dure
CHF 38.-, EUR 25.90
ISBN 978-3-7245-1670-5 (Ende)

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Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky was born and raised in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and went on to complete her postgraduate studies there, earning a PhD in History. She spent 13 years at UNESCO, first in Paris and then in Geneva. After serving as Director of Communications at Green Cross International, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she launched NashaGazeta.ch in 2007, Switzerland’s first Russian-language online daily newspaper.

In 2022, Nadia Sikorsky was named to Le Temps’ Forum des 100, which brings together individuals who, in the newspaper’s view, have “significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland”, from across public life, business, politics, science and culture.

After 18 years at the helm of NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to devote herself to what had always held a special place in her work as a journalist: culture in all its diversity. This led to the creation of Russian Accent, a trilingual cultural blog in Russian, French and English, born in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland, which has become her second home and whose multiculturalism and multilingualism have helped shape the character of this new project.

At the heart of the project is the perspective of a European of Russian origin, drawing on more than 35 years of professional experience and a deep knowledge of both cultural traditions. Nadia Sikorsky sees her role as that of a cultural mediator between the two. The title of the blog, Russian Accent, reflects this idea: the accent is neither a linguistic barrier nor a political position, but a distinctive cultural imprint within a European context.

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