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Address
Avenue de Cour 14B
1007 Lausanne
Schedules
Free
April to October: every day from 10am to 6.30pm.
November to March: every day from 10am to 5pm.
Greenhouse closed on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon to 1pm.
Annual closure from mid-December to mid-January.
Access
Bus 1 and 25: “Jardin botanique” stop
Metro M2: “Délices” stop
+41 21 316 99 88
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Nature abounds in inventive solutions, the fruit of four billion years of evolution and selection, whose effectiveness has been proven on a living scale. Numerous examples from botany, zoology and geology have given rise to remarkable biomimetic applications: lotus and hydrophobic coatings; burdock and Velcro; morpho butterfly and Morphotex textile; spider silk and synthetic silk; mussel byssus and glues, etc.
By bringing the natural environment into dialogue with the human innovations it inspires, “Mimêsis” invites the public to rediscover nature from a new angle: that of its intelligence, diversity and inestimable value. It also offers us a lesson in humility, given the complex and often energy-consuming means that humans must mobilise to try and match what nature achieves with elegant economy of means.
