Ages 8+ • Educational Experience • 1 hour • Reservation and digital badge required to enter.

Discover the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations in Geneva, and learn about the UN in a unique working environment.

Visitors sign in individually and will join a group of 15-20 people for this tour.

Due to important renovation work at the Palais des Nations, guided tours for individual visitors are limited to a few tours per month and they are booked up very quickly.

Individual tours can not be booked in advance, usually, we set the availabilities on the 20 of the month for the following months. (on the 20th of March for April availabilities)

-No ticket sales on site.

• Before booking, please verify that the proposed date and time align with your availability.

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Steps to visit the Palais des Nations

1. Select the desired date and pay for the guided tour.

2. Register your personal data to receive your digital access badge. The link to register is in the confirmation email for the guided tour.

3. Prior to your guided tour, please check that you have received your digital badge by email.

4. Arrive 30 minutes before your tour at the meeting point indicated in your confirmation email with your digital badge (in digital form or printed) and your ID documents

The Palais des Nations is currently being refurbished in certain areas. Many attractions are still accessible.

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About

Our tour guides will inform you about the activities of the United Nations and about how the UN impacts your life, among the people who make it happen. You will also discover the Palais des Nations, a unique building, formerly the headquarters of the League of Nations.

Duration

1 hour

What you will discover, depending on our daily schedule of meetings:

• some of the newly renovated conference and commission rooms in the historic part of the Palais des Nations.
• The Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room, decorated by famous artist Miquel Barceló.
• Part of the Ariana Park and the monument commemorating the conquest of outer space.
• Gifts presented by various countries to the United Nations Office at Geneva.
• The plaza and entrance of our new state-of the-art and sustainable Building H.
• You will discover the Sustainable Development Goals.
• You will learn how a conference works at the United Nations.

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Important Notices:

• Please arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled tour time to leave enough time for security screening.
• All visitors must carry a valid passport (UN Member or Observer State) or an ID card from the Schengen Zone and present the digital access badge received by mail
• The meeting point is at the Pregny Gate of the Palais des Nations, on 14 Avenue de la Paix in Geneva (opposite the ICRC-Red Cross and next to the Geneva Hotel School).
• Visitors may not enter the Palais des Nations with luggage or large bags.
• Our tour route and schedule may be affected by the current UNOGs’ meetings.
• The Visitors' Service may also need to close at short notice, depending on the events taking place at the Palais des Nations.
• The Visitors' Service and the UN Security Service will refuse entry to any visitor who is not in possession of his or her digital access badge and passport. Late arrivals cannot be accommodated.

The United Nations Office at Geneva is a workplace: Delegates hold their meetings in the conference rooms where visitors enter on tour during the guided tours. Visitors are reminded to please keep noise levels down and to dress in a way that respects the professional working environment of the United Nations.

• Within United Nations premises, all persons are required to comply with safety and security rules given by the tour guides at the beginning of every guided tour. Any act that disrupts the guided tour and/or the normal functioning of the organization’s programmatic activities, such as public displays of any form, including, but not limited to, clothing, banners, placards or other written or visual means, as well as vocal/audio sounds, gatherings, or demonstrations of any kind, including passive, is not allowed.