The Bourbaki Experience: A visual sensation of its own! The Bourbaki Panorama is a witness to 19th century audiences’ appetites for visual sensations. The huge circular painting from 1881 is one of the most visually arresting works in the history of the media. 112 of 10 metres, it shows the French Army under the command of General Bourbaki crossing the Swiss border in 1871. The illusion generated by the painting thus manages to transport the beholder to another place in another time. The Bourbaki Panorama is at once a stirring denouncement of war and an important contemporary record of European and Swiss history. The purpose of the Panorama in those days was to amaze, inform and entertain at one and the same time.
Opening Hours April 1 to October 31 Monday: 13.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Sunday: 09.00 to 18.00 November 1 to March 31 Monday: 13.00 to 17.00 Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00 to 17.00
