Red Cross: From the living room to the wide world

EXHIBITION Until January 2017, the special exhibition "Red Cross World Tour" takes visitors on an exciting journey through six countries where the Red Cross helps people to better protect themselves from disasters. It also shows how important mobility, transportation and logistics are for the work of the Red Cross.

The Red Cross is exhibiting a world tour at the Swiss Museum of Transport to mark its 150th anniversary.The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2016. In the run-up to and during the celebrations, the Museum of Transport Switzerland is organizing a major special exhibition entitled "World tour Red Cross" takes place. The interactive exhibition takes visitors through six countries that are repeatedly affected by natural disasters. In all these countries, the SRC supports the local population in disaster preparedness. This area is becoming increasingly important in the work of the Red Cross. Weather extremes such as droughts, floods and hurricanes are on the increase worldwide due to climate change and pose the greatest threat to people in poor countries.visitors to the Red Cross World Tour learn in a playful way how the local situation can be improved step by step with simple, tried-and-tested measures. This can significantly reduce the consequences of future disasters for those affected. The importance of mobility, transportation and logistics in disaster preparedness and response is demonstrated time and again.Determine your own itineraryThe special thing about the trip: Visitors can choose their own route. Whether by bus, boat or rickshaw, they always have to choose between two options. Depending on their decision, their journey takes a different course. Along the way, they meet locals and Red Cross employees, get into unexpected situations and learn a lot about the risks and challenges on the ground.In addition to the interactive travel stations, there is a country box for each country in which information about the work of the Red Cross is attractively displayed. But there are also surprising things to discover about mobility, communication and cultural peculiarities in Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal and the Philippines.On the road in the time machineIn addition to the journey through three continents, visitors can also embark on a journey through the eras. In the futuristically designed time machine, important events in the world and Red Cross history of the past, present and possible future events are told in films in an original way. None other than the founder of the Red Cross, Henry Dunant, who is brought to life as a likeable comic figure, guides you through the journey through time.