Musée de l'Elysée

Prix Elysée

Winner of the third edition

Luis Carlos Tovar winner of the third edition of the PrixElysée, with his project “My Father’s Garden”.

Currently

May 29 - August 25. 2019
Tuesday to Sunday, 11am - 6pm

Yann Mingard

Everything is up in the air, thus our vertigo

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Shirin Neshat "Looking for Oum Kulthum"

From 22 June to 25 August 2019

Late opening

June 27, 2019
6:00PM to 8:00PM

Discussion with the writer Antoine Volodine

July 04, 2019
7:00PM to 8:30PM

Focus

Captions for the de Jongh collection

LabElysée

The de Jongh collection is a project led by the Collections Department. It includes many photographs for which we are looking for information. Help us to find the captions!

Nicolas Bouvier: déambulations japonaises

Centre Culturel du Manoir, Cologny

A journey between old and new Japan through very different images. Portraits, landscapes and compositions follow one another along the paths travelled. Public opening May, 22 at 6pm

Shirin Neshat

Looking for Oum Kulthum

The installation Looking for Oum Kulthum, presented as a world premiere during the Nuit des images, is on view at the Musée de l'Elysée until August 25, 2019.

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Free admission!

May 20, 2019

Since the museum will temporarily close between October 2020 and October 2021 to move to PLATEFORME 10, do enjoy the free admission from June 2019 onwards!

Perspectives on EPFL

May 19, 2019

In tribute to the photographer Bogdan Konopka, who passed away on May 19, 2019 On the occasion of EPFL's distinctive 50th year, ArtLab celebrates the campus and its histories with bifold exhibitions. The Infinity Room projects are stimulated by the...

Annual Report 2018

April 01, 2019

The Annual Report 2018 is available as a printed version and video here.

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PLATEFORME 10 - The Futur Museum

By the Fall of 2021, the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud will see three of their flagship cultural institutions brought together on a single site. The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (mudac) and the Musée de l’Elysée. Read more

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