Can you feel the weight of history here? It’s not just stone you see, it’s a colossal boulder called the Poudingue de Vallorcine. This erratically shaped rock has a story spanning millennia, transported here by the very same glaciers that once sculpted our landscape. Imagine this giant boulder, weighing a whopping 35 tonnes, being carried along by an immense river of ice.
It was during the construction of the Geneva-Lausanne motorway that this stone, a testament to glacial power, was revealed. Its journey ended in 1979, finding a new home in the heart of the park at the Geneva Museum. As you gaze upon the Poudingue de Vallorcine, you’re looking at a relic from a time when Switzerland was a different world, a landscape sculpted by ice. Imagine yourself beside this ancient giant, a miniature amidst its vastness. Think of its journey, the grinding force of ice as it took this stone from somewhere far, far away. In this one boulder, we find a symbol of the geological forces that shaped our very planet.