Mamco Le Voyageur

This itinerant museum was conceived for the 20th anniversary of Geneva’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO), multiplying itself as a way of reaching new audiences and temporarily inhabiting areas where the cultural offer is less abundant than in the hypercenter.

Designed and realized in collaboration with Geneva-based artist Fabrice Gygi, the museum traveled through four localities of the canton, presenting a new exhibition at each stop. Its mobile structure, made of extruded aluminum profiles with polyester canvas panels slid in between, provides a 212 m² exhibition surface. The museum is composed of two single-pitch roof volumes, offset in plan to generate the entrances.

The structure is conceived as an open framework, a civic architecture evoking multiple images at once: a tent for a celebration or gathering, an emergency shelter, a camp installation, or a barn protecting hay and harvests. By essence movable, it appears capable of landing anywhere and, thanks to its simultaneously ordinary and plural appearance, integrating into any environment — urban, suburban, or rural.