A poet’s muse, the light bulb to a puzzled inventor and the stage for many a dramatic marine rescue: Lake Geneva has racked up dozens of unexpected titles and milestones through its short lifespan. At the Museum of Lake Geneva, each news clipping and short anecdote is a separate page in the autobiography of Lake Geneva. Flip through each page and watch the words come alive before your eyes in the form of physical paintings and prototypes. The museum is a collection of a hobnob array of everything you can conjure up. The list ranges from studies done on the physical conditions of the lake to a peephole looking into the past cultures and civilizations to have come and gone past the borders of Lake Geneva, drawing on its pulsing currents from the river Rhone to the Mediterranean. The Pre-Roman art on display are the illustrations of Lake Geneva’s personal recount of a time before the Romans, of clans and kingdoms that commissioned art as a form of physical memory. Oftentimes, you’d see tiny heads bobbing up and down before the museum’s small aquarium, drawn to the live display like steel pins to a magnet. The bulging eyes placidly ignoring the attention being showered on them are from the unseen depths of the lake, different sections of the aquarium displaying the different strata and natural history of the lake. Stepping out of the museum, you close the final pages of the Lake Geneva Tale and you return to her banks only to notice shadows and fletches you’d never noticed before.