Maison Tavel (Tavel House)

Maison Tavel (Tavel House) Review

Vaulted cellars and ground-floor kitchens display medieval graffiti, local coins, 15th-century tiles, and a guillotine in Geneva's oldest house, now a museum focused on life in the city from 1334 to the 1800's. Seventeenth-century ironwork, doors, and other fragments of long-demolished houses fill the first floor; a bourgeois home complete with 18th-century wallpaper is re-created on the second. The enormous Magnin Model (which depicts Geneva as it looked before its elaborate defense walls came down in 1850) is housed in the attic; temporary exhibits rotate through the basement.