{"id":17859,"date":"2025-12-15T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/?p=17859"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:37:44","slug":"2025-dec-2025-the-microscope-that-saw-snow-algae-in-1761-exhibited-at-rouge-comme-neige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/2025-dec-2025-the-microscope-that-saw-snow-algae-in-1761-exhibited-at-rouge-comme-neige\/","title":{"rendered":"| 2025, Dec 2025 | The microscope that \u201csaw\u201d snow algae in 1761, exhibited at ROUGE COMME NEIGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"200\">It has arrived!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1060px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-17859-1\" width=\"1060\" height=\"596\" loop autoplay preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bluesky-video-ENG.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bluesky-video-ENG.mp4\">https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bluesky-video-ENG.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"399\">The microscope \ud83d\udd2c that very likely enabled the first observation of snow algae by Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure in 1761 has arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/2025-oct-2026-july-rouge-comme-neige-a-must-see-exhibition\/\"><strong>ROUGE COMME NEIGE<\/strong><\/a> exhibition at the Grenoble Museum. This microscope once belonged to de Saussure\u2019s uncle, the renowned botanist Charles Bonnet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"439\"><strong data-start=\"401\" data-end=\"439\">On display from December 15, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"517\">An exceptional loan from the <a href=\"https:\/\/institutions.ville-geneve.ch\/fr\/mhn\/votre-visite\/musee-dhistoire-des-sciences\/\"><strong data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"516\">Museum of the History of Science of Geneva<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"538\">Come and admire it!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"562\"><strong data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"562\">For all audiences!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grenoble.fr\/1105-rouge-comme-neige.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17770 aligncenter\" 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decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17711\" src=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n-700x930.jpg 700w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/557943537_1376602527802283_4636175431622450209_n.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17713\" src=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/558171621_1388794646587064_4102458154733029197_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/558171621_1388794646587064_4102458154733029197_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/558171621_1388794646587064_4102458154733029197_n.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"381\">Co-produced by the <strong data-start=\"19\" data-end=\"39\">City of Grenoble<\/strong> through its <strong data-start=\"52\" data-end=\"81\">Museum of Natural History<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"95\">CNRS<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"132\">Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes (UGA)<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"154\">M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France<\/strong>, the exhibition <em data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"184\">Red as Snow<\/em> showcases the scientific work of the <strong data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"241\">ALPALGA project<\/strong>, dedicated to exploring the microscopic life that inhabits high-altitude snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has arrived! The microscope \ud83d\udd2c that very likely enabled the first observation of snow algae by Horace-B\u00e9n\u00e9dict de Saussure in 1761 has arrived at the ROUGE COMME NEIGE exhibition at the Grenoble Museum. This microscope once belonged to de Saussure\u2019s uncle, the renowned botanist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17865,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions\/17865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpalga.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}