Vision 2028
June 2026 -May 2028
Redesigning our permanent exhibition with your input
We have decided to give our permanent exhibition a new look.
The current exhibition will stay open as we phase in these changes – which emphasize inclusion, reuse and other sustainability principles – between 2026 and 2028.
We’re keeping the Museum open during this time because we want to remain a welcoming space for everyone to connect and reflect. We also want to let you know about the decisions that go into redesigning an exhibition and the processes involved. In keeping with the spirit of humanitarian action, we’re taking a pragmatic, collaborative approach, working with the resources available to us.
The new exhibition will open in 2028 to coincide with the Museum’s 40th anniversary and the bicentenary of Henry Dunant’s birth.
It will be permanent, but also dynamic – evolving in step with developments in humanitarian action and with your input.
hERE, WE BUILD THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
The new exhibition will explore humanitarian action by focusing on three periods in the history of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement:
The Past
Why and how was the Movement formed, and how has it changed since the 19th century?
The Present
What does the Movement’s work look like today? What do the people of the Movement do, what challenges do they encounter and what realities do they face on the ground?
The Future
What challenges lie ahead for humanitarian action?
Helping shape the new
exhibition
As the work progresses, you can help shape the new exhibition by answering our guiding question:
How does humanitarian action affect us all, here and now?
Take a postcard and record your thoughts on it – in writing or as a drawing.
Your feedback will go on display in the Agora, and we will take it on board as we redesign the exhibition.
Thank you for taking part!
Project diary
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27.02.2025
Meeting with the Scientific Committee for the “Future”
Re-use approach
In continuity with the redesign of the reception areas carried out in 2024, the transformation of the permanent exhibition spaces follows the same principle: valuing what already exists. Intervening sparingly, observing closely, and revealing what is already there. In the reception areas, existing materials have been carefully dismantled and reused in order to extend their story.
The spaces dedicated to the permanent exhibition will also be redesigned and adapted to accommodate the new scenography. Here, material becomes more discreet: it will need to be sourced elsewhere, while prioritising, wherever possible, existing resources.
A number of targeted interventions will take place: here, a wall will be shortened; there, another extended. Precise and essential adjustments that reshape circulation and guide the gaze. Technical installations will be upgraded and non-compliant elements brought up to standard.
The scenography will follow the same approach: furniture and textile elements will be reused materials. As the Museum remains open throughout the works, temporary walls will be moved and reused from one phase to the next, becoming a material in motion.
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The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum asks a central question: how does humanitarian action affect us all, here and now?