Andrea Samborski

Museum of Art and History, Geneva: Exhibition Audio-/Videoguide: NARRATOR

Audio-/Videoguide for the Exhibition:

"GENEVA AND GREECE - Friendship in the Service of Independence" (Oct. 2021 - Feb. 2022)

at the Museum of Art and History / Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (MAH) in Geneva.

Voiceover for the historical figure of Anna Eynard-Lullin (26 May 1793 - 30 October 1868), a Swiss philanthropist, born a citizen of Republic of Geneva.

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About The Exhibit:
On the occasion of the bicentenary of Greece's declaration of independence (25 March 1821), the Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity (Vandœuvres) and the MAH recall the friendly relations between Greece and Geneva at the beginning of the 19th century.

A Greek, Jean Capodistrias, and two Genevans, Charles Pictet de Rochemont and Jean Gabriel Eynard, played a key role in the integration of Geneva into the Helvetic Confederation and the independence of Greece. Eynard was also a co-founder of the National Bank of Greece.

The exhibition highlights the collection of the MAH as well as those of Geneva institutions and Swiss museums. It also benefits from important loans from Greece, notably from the National History Museum, the Capodistrias Museum in Corfu, the Benaki Museum and the Museum of Philhellenism in Athens, as well as from private collectors.

In collaboration with:
The Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity