International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
PERMANENT EXHIBITION

THE WRITTEN WORD
ACTS OF MERCY
THE BATTLE OF SOLFERINO
FOUNDATION OF THE RED CROSS
TOWARD UNIVERSALITY
PRISONERS OF WAR
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
BETWEEN THE WARS
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1945 TO THE 80s
TODAY
Credits

PRESERVING LIFE BY THE WRITTEN WORD

The Red Cross came into being through Henry Dunant. However, the need to preserve human life has been a constant theme of all civilisations.

This concern is attested here by six panels bearing texts on respect for life from various civilisations.