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What to do in Lausanne in July?

What to do in Lausanne in July?

The sun that’s warming our face, the enticing smells of barbecue, afte...

In search of the best ice creams in Lausanne

In search of the best ice creams in Lausanne

The sun is out and temperatures are rising. After roaming the city str...

No need to leave Lausanne to go to the beach, there is Lake Geneva!

No need to leave Lausanne to go to the beach, there is Lake Geneva!

In the summer, many of us rush to the seaside to enjoy the “sandy beac...

A weekend on the shores of Lake geneva

A weekend on the shores of Lake geneva

Lausanne is synonymous with Lake Geneva, the Lavaux vineyards, the his...

Family-friendly Lausanne

Family-friendly Lausanne

Explorers young and old, set off to discover the treasures of the city...

Hikes and walks starting from Lausanne

Hikes and walks starting from Lausanne

Are you looking for a real dose of nature, vast expanses of green mead...

Lausanne – the summer’s outdoor activities

Lausanne – the summer’s outdoor activities

As soon as the sun peeks out, Lausanners rush to the lake side. Prepar...

Top highlights in close proximity to Lausanne

Top highlights in close proximity to Lausanne

Now is the time to visit these little gems, all of which are very easy...

The Lausanne sustainable travel guide

The Lausanne sustainable travel guide

Because sustainability concerns us all, we suggest sustainable activit...

Experience the Games at the Olympic Museum

26.07.2024 - 11.08.2024

Le Musée Olympique

Experience the Games at the Olympic Museum

From 26 July to 11 August, celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympic Games™ in Lausanne. The programme promises to be full of excitement and insights!

Lausanne Garden Parties

12.07.2024 - 10.08.2024

Divers parcs lausannois

Lausanne Garden Parties

Five consecutive, free and festive weekends, in five Lausanne parks! The Lausanne Garden Parties are giving pride of place to music, dancing, theatre, street arts and open-air cinema. A rich programme of activities for children is also offered.

Swiss National Day in Lausanne

31.07.2024 - 04.08.2024

Place de la Navigation

Swiss National Day in Lausanne

The National Day festivities will be in full swing from July 31 to August 4, 2024, on the Place de la Navigation in lakeside Ouchy, with a bevy of musical performances, food stalls and entertainment for children.

Dialogue between an octopus and a citrus squeezer

07.04.2023 - 11.08.2024

mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains

Dialogue between an octopus and a citrus squeezer

This surprising, quirky exploration immerses visitors into the diversity of mudac’s collections for the very first time, bringing together contemporary design works, glass art, ceramics, graphic arts and jewellery.

Objects of Desire. Surrealism & Design

08.03.2024 - 04.08.2024

mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains

Objects of Desire. Surrealism & Design

The mudac presents Objects of Desire, an exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum. Objects of Desire explores the close dialogue between surrealism and design over the last hundred years. From Salvador Dali to Meret Oppenheim and Iris van Herpen, the exhibition presents both pioneering works from the 1930s and contemporary projects.

Alchemy. Surrealism & Glass Art

08.03.2024 - 11.08.2024

mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains

Alchemy. Surrealism & Glass Art

A century ago, in 1924, surrealism burst onto the European art scene. Thirty-five years later, at the end of the 1950s, it was this same movement that gave birth to mudac’s collection of contemporary glass art, now the largest in Europe.

Magalí Herrera, A Spark of Light in this World

08.03.2024 - 01.09.2024

Collection de l'Art Brut

Magalí Herrera, A Spark of Light in this World

The Collection de l’Art Brut is holding a retrospective of the works of Magalí Herrera (1914-1992). The exhibition will feature every piece by the Uruguayan artist held in the museum's collection, spanning the full length of her career. A selection of items from her personal archives will also go on display, including an intense series of letters between Herrera and Jean Dubuffet, the first of which was written in 1967.

29.03.2024 - 04.08.2024

Photo Elysée - Musée cantonal pour la photographie

Cindy Sherman is considered to be one of the most important American artists of her generation. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades.

Man Ray. Liberating Photography

29.03.2024 - 04.08.2024

Photo Elysée - Musée cantonal pour la photographie

Man Ray. Liberating Photography

Man Ray began his career as a painter. Photography was one of the major breakthroughs of modern art and led to a rethinking of notions of representation. In the 1920s and 30s, the photographic medium came to the forefront of the avant-garde movement, and Man Ray soon made a name for himself with his virtuosity.

Surrealism. Le Grand Jeu

12.04.2024 - 25.08.2024

MCBA - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Surrealism. Le Grand Jeu

This transhistorical show, the first thematic exhibition devoted to Surrealism at MCBA since 1987, examines the unprecedented relevance today of this major movement in the history of art. Surrealism, a young centenarian, hasn’t aged one bit.

Gina Proenza. You and Your Gang - Manor Vaud Cultural Prize 2024

24.05.2024 - 01.09.2024

MCBA - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Gina Proenza. You and Your Gang - Manor Vaud Cultural Prize 2024

To mark the award of the Manor Vaud Cultural Prize, Gina Proenza is taking over the Espace Projet for a brand new exhibition: she devises a polyphonic installation that questions the positions of those who pronounce or receive a sentence.

Paris Olympique™, an immersive journey

25.05.2024 - 19.01.2025

Le Musée Olympique

Paris Olympique™, an immersive journey

Welcome to the City of Light! Step into the fascinating world of Paris Olympique and be immersed in the three Parisian editions of the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and 2024.

14.06.2024 - 27.10.2024

Collection de l'Art Brut

Clemens Wild’s paintings feature protagonists with names like Babsi, Sam and Uschi: these figures - with colourful clothing and hair, smoking cigarettes - form a gallery of women who, despite a life of hardship, stand tall with confidence and dignity. They share the same modest backgrounds, low social status and distant origins. Through these works, they talk about their stories, their struggles and their hopes.

Pascal Vonlanthen

14.06.2024 - 27.10.2024

Collection de l'Art Brut

Pascal Vonlanthen

Pascal Vonlanthen is fascinated by typefaces and textual arrangement, although he cannot read. In copying text from newspapers, magazines and advertising materials, he produces his own, distinctive take on a language whose codes he cannot decipher. Over the course of a decade, he produced an original body of asemic writings - texts with no syntax but invested with immense formal power.

Lausanne Jardins 2024 - Between Water and Us

15.06.2024 - 05.10.2024

Divers lieux, de la terre ferme jusqu’au lac Léman, de la Chamberonne à la Vuachère

Lausanne Jardins 2024 - Between Water and Us

In 2024, Lausanne Jardins will move to the shores of Lake Geneva for the first time. Some forty gardens and installations will flow from the mainland to the lake, in between the Chamberonne and the Vuachère. Under the theme "Between Water and Us", LJ24 invites us to take a new look at the city. Dive into the worlds of water, discovering playful and surprising gardens to be visited free of charge from June to October.

Bulles aux éclats (Bursting with bubbles)

17.06.2024 - 21.09.2024

Exposition en plein air à travers la ville

Bulles aux éclats (Bursting with bubbles)

During the whole summer, BDFIL continues to celebrate comic strips by offering an exploration of humour. From June 17 to September 21, this open-air exhibition across the city, from the Cathedral to Ouchy, will form a walk composed of 10 chapters, leading you on a discovery of the many aspects this theme takes on in comic strips.

Sabine Weiss x Nathalie Boutté. Tribute

22.06.2024 - 12.01.2025

Photo Elysée - Musée cantonal pour la photographie

Sabine Weiss x Nathalie Boutté. Tribute

To mark the centenary of Sabine Weiss's birth (1924-2021), Photo Elysée is presenting an exhibition that pays tribute to the photographer and has invited the visual artist Nathalie Boutté (France, 1967) to engage in dialogue with her work.

Masterpieces from the Langmatt Museum. Boudin, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin…

28.06.2024 - 03.11.2024

Fondation de l'Hermitage

Masterpieces from the Langmatt Museum. Boudin, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin…

In 2024, as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Fondation de l’Hermitage will host an exceptional exhibition in partnership with the Langmatt Museum, Baden. This magnificent collection of primarily Impressionist works, most of which were acquired in the years 1908-1919 by collectors Jenny and Sidney Brown, is coming to the Hermitage for its first public display outside its home at Villa Langmatt.

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EXPERIENCE THE GAMES AT THE OLYMPIC MUSEUM !

Celebrate the Games at the Olympic Museum and take part in the many free activities organized especially for the occasion.

At the winegrower’s table

At the winegrower’s table

Every Wednesday during the summer, a winegrower from the Lavaux region...

Public guided tour: Treasures of the city

Public guided tour: Treasures of the city

Follow your guide on a guided tour of the historic heart of Lausanne.

Lausanne City Pass

Lausanne City Pass

Discover the best attractions in Lausanne and its region with the Laus...

Lausanne Choco Tour

Lausanne Choco Tour

Choose 5 chocolatiers from 11 in Lausanne and take home an assortment ...

Swiss Gourmet Tour

Swiss Gourmet Tour

A discovery of typically Swiss dishes, in Lausanne’s emblematic restau...

Detective-Trail

Detective-Trail

Discover the hidden treasures of Lausanne with Detective Blaireau and ...

The Travel Journal is the ideal object to entertain children during a ...

Swiss Travel System

Swiss Travel System

Enjoy the different offers of Swiss Travel System

Vue drone sur Les Jardins du restaurant du Vieux-Lausanne a la Cite.

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Lausanne Cathedral

Lausanne Cathedral

At the heart of the old town, the majestic Lausanne Cathedral overlook...

The Olympic Museum

The Olympic Museum

A marathon of emotions. Would you like to relive great Olympic moments...

UNESCO-listed Lavaux vineyard terraces

UNESCO-listed Lavaux vineyard terraces

Take a walk through some of the most beautiful scenery in Switzerland:...

The new PLATEFORME 10 arts district is a unique venue dedicated to cul...

Collection de l'Art Brut

Collection de l'Art Brut

One of Lausanne’s key museums, the Collection de l’Art Brut, housed in...

Lake Geneva, the largest freshwater lake in western Europe - and certa...

Flon is the heart of the city of Lausanne, pulsing with life, day and ...

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Lausanne Transport Card & More

Lausanne Transport Card & More

Amélie, the enchanted illustrator

Amélie, the enchanted illustrator

For me, Lausanne is… the love of nature combined with the love of char...

Axel, the speedy dunker

Axel, the speedy dunker

Lausanne, for me, is the perfect balance between the hustle and bustle...

Jasmine, the dancing queen

Jasmine, the dancing queen

Lausanne, for me, is the place where my passion for dancing has blosso...

Luana, the creative soul

Luana, the creative soul

For me, Lausanne is a city that inspires, whether thanks to the charm ...

Michaël, the urban spirit

Michaël, the urban spirit

The best small city in the world. It’s the city that I miss every time...

Madina, the classy mommy

Madina, the classy mommy

For me, Lausanne is a city where everyone will find their place. Wheth...

Vincent, the cyclo flash

Vincent, the cyclo flash

My home town is a place that is naturally dear to me. An infinite play...

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