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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.
- Address: 6 rue du Puits-St-Pierre, Vieille Ville, Geneva | Map It
- Phone: 022/4183700
- Cost: Free
- Hours: Tues.-Sun. 10-5
- Website: mah.ville-ge.ch
- Location: Vieille Ville
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