The mudac and Photo Elysée are inaugurated this Wednesday, June 15 within the new Lausanne museum center. They join the MCBA, moved to the Platform 10 site in 2019.
From this Wednesday, June 15, three museums are gathered in one place in Lausanne: the Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (mudac), Photo Elysée and the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA). The site, Platform 10, is officially inaugurated today in the presence of the authorities, fifteen years after the launch of the project. It aims to be a place of life open to all audiences with dining and strolling areas.
For the occasion, three exhibitions on the theme of the train “Train Zug Treno Tren” will open this weekend and until September 25. “It’s a totally Swiss and national unity theme,” said Patrick Gyger, general manager of Platform 10. At the crossroads of painting, photography and design, but also cinema and literature, the train and the railway world are presented both when stationary and in full motion, through stations, landscapes, journeys, encounters, dreams and history. In addition to 200 photographs, 100 paintings, 100 design objects, videos and installations, the public is invited to discover how the train feeds the imagination of artists.
Open house weekend
Throughout the weekend of June 18 and 19, access to the museums and the three exhibitions will be completely free and the museums will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. A program of events for the general public, also free, including performances, concerts, circus and installations, will be offered on the esplanade and in the museums. With, among others, the Ouinch Ouinch Collective, Daya Jones, Compagnie Linga, Théo Schmitt, TERDEF, A l’Echelle, Cod.Act and Le Romandie.
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The show Vertigo today is about the inauguration of Platform 10.