© Isao Takahata/Studio Ghibli, NH, 1994 / Isao Takahata, Pompoko, 1994

Isao Takahata. Pioneer of contemporary cartooning, from the post-war period to Studio Ghibli

Where?
mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains
When
From 24.04.2026 to 27.09.2026
Price
From
12 CHF

Isao Takahata (1935-2018) is one of the world's great animation masters. He co-founded Studio Ghibli alongside Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, and since the 1960s his work has been demanding, poetic and innovative.

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Address

mudac - Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains
PLATEFORME 10 - Place de la Gare 17
1003 Lausanne

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Schedules

From 24.04.2026 to 27.09.2026
Monday
10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 - 18:00
Thursday
10:00 - 20:00
Friday
10:00 - 18:00
Saturday
10:00 - 18:00
Sunday
10:00 - 18:00

Plateforme 10 tickets - 1 museum, full price (adults aged 26 and over)

15 CHF

Plateforme 10 tickets - 1 museum, reduced price, adults aged 26 and over (AVS, AI, unemployed, students, apprentices)

12 CHF

Plateforme 10 tickets - 1 museum, under the age of 26

Free

Plateforme 10 tickets - 3 museums, full price (adults aged 26 and over)

25 CHF

Plateforme 10 tickets - 3 museums, reduced price, adults aged 26 and over (AVS, AI, unemployed, students, apprentices)

19 CHF

Plateforme 10 tickets - 3 museums, duo (visit for two, adults aged 26 and over)

38 CHF

Plateforme 10 tickets - 3 museums, under the age of 26

Free

Free admission on the first Saturday of the month.

Access
CFF train station: 3 minutes on foot
Bus 1, 3, 21, 60: «Lausanne-Gare» stop
Bus 6: «Cécil» stop
Metro M2: «Lausanne-Gare» stop

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With his profoundly humanistic outlook, his sense of storytelling and his daring use of form, Takahata renewed the language of cartooning, freeing it from its traditional codes to make it an art form in its own right - recognised for what he himself called “the invention of animated reality”.

At mudac, the exhibition retraces the filmmaker's career, from “Heidi” to “Tomb of the Fireflies” to “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”, through his notebooks and storyboards, original drawings, film extracts and audiovisual documents.

It also sheds light on a previously unpublished aspect: the special links that Takahata forged with the West throughout his life. From his intellectual training to his role as a bridge between cultures, and the accuracy of his depictions of the European world in emblematic works such as “Heidi”.

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