Our collections are moving!

The collections of the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MahN), some 150,000 objects and images whose origins range from Antiquity to today, are going to be moved. They will be held in the new conservation centre located in the Tivoli Nord complex in Neuchâtel specially constructed to house the collections of the municipality’s four museums, the Musée d’art et d’histoire, the Musée d’ethnographie, the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and the Jardin botanique.

 

In this way these museums will gain an appropriate site to conserve their irreplaceable collections representing an invaluable part of the city’s heritage. The physical transfer of a museum’s collections is an extremely complex operation. In this case it will require the participation of the MahN’s entire staff of experts and technicians, along with other specialists in art conservation and restoration. The coordination and planning of this project represents an enormous challenge. During the year 2024 the preparations for this move will require the pre-emption of most of the rooms on the first floor usually used for temporary exhibitions, along with many other spaces that will come to resemble a vast construction site. 

Our collections are moving! - teaser