150 years of humanitarian action: Exhibition, "Humanizing War?"
26-03-2013 Event
To commemorate the founding of the ICRC in 1863 and the adoption of the original Geneva Convention the following year, Geneva’s Musée Rath is putting on an exhibition designed to tell the ICRC’s story, with the great historical events that prompted the organization’s development.
Event Info
![](https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/images/photos/2014/th_rath-exposition-home.jpg)
Where: Musée Rath, Place Neuve - Geneva
When: 30.04.2014-20.07.2014
>> Official website of the exposition
Official website of the exposition
![© ICRC /hist-01816-11 The Musée Rath closed between 1914 and 1919 because of the war, becoming the temporary home of the ICRC's International Prisoners of War Agency. The Agency served as an intermediary between prisoners and their families.](https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/images/photos/2014/md_150-year-rath-hist-01816-11.jpg)
The Musée Rath closed between 1914 and 1919 because of the war, becoming the temporary home of the ICRC's International Prisoners of War Agency. The Agency served as an intermediary between prisoners and their families.
© ICRC / hist-01816-11
The exhibition has been made possible by a partnership between the Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève, the ICRC and the Mémorial de Caen – all working in conjunction with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum – and by generous support from the Fondation Hans Wilsdorf.
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