Saturday, January 24, 2015

Visit Museum of the Founder of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Switzerland


Monument to Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, in Wagga Wagga, Australia.

Henry Dunant (8 May 1828-30 Oct 1910)
We was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1910.
In addition to founding the Red Cross and the Red Crescent he inspired the Geneva Convention.
His last words were:
Where has humanity gone?
The home where he spent his last years is now a museum in Heiden Switzerland. On the websites in Wikipedia and of the museum you can see the monument to Henry Dunant, and the red cross table with four white chairs. The website about it the museum in German and English. Here is a link to the English Version.
http://www.dunant-museum.ch/en/?cat=6

You can also read about him in Wikipedia.
I discovered this museum about which I previously knew nothing when researching Inventors Day for my Quotations Calendar.

Angela Lansbury
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