I would recommend this museum. I went with the idea in my mind that i would be thoroughly bored but i was nearby (it's near to the Russian church and the musee modern) and thought i'd give it a go. The pieces were extremely well presented and printed descriptions all the pieces in each room are available in French, English... More

The Baur is focused on Chinese and Japanese ceramics and some paintings or prints. Within that scope it has quite a lot of quite lovely pieces, well worth a few hours of study.

This museum was very well maintained and organised... Descriptions were available in both English and French. They have a huge collection of Chinese porcelain, and a reasonable collection of Japanese porcelain, Japanese katanas, a samurai suit, tea ceremony artifacts. I spent over 3 hours at the museum (for 14 rooms, remember that number as the whole time I was unsure... More

This museum is the best one to show us Chinese and Japanese art (especially porcelain ware) in Europe. The China ware shown this museum cannot be seen in Beijing!

Located in one of the best place in Geneva, and housed in a beautiful house, the Baur Museum is showing great Asian pieces. Not only the pieces are very unique, but the way they are being displayed makes touring this museum a very enjoyable experience: not to be missed by whoever likes art!

The museum is very near to " l' Eglisse Russe" . It is an old building, very well maintained and organised. For me it was the best museum I have seen in Geneva. Permanent collections are from Japan (a very impressive samurai uniform, swords, pipe boxes, writing tools etc) and China (porcelain). The presentation is impeccable, minimal style, clean, discreet... More

A museum in a trafitional old building in the old town. The exibitions are on four floors...one just about Japan and on one floor there are changing axhibitions. The museum is not crowded so you can enjoy your stay and take as much time as you like to look around. The explantions are available in French and English but not... More