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PLATEFORME 10 - Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
Schedules
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
On 24 and 31 December: 10am to 5pm.
Closed on 25 December and 1 January.
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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Many technical inventions have accompanied these developments and advances, including aquarium, diving bell, the old-style hard-hat diving suit, periscope, undersea vehicle, and on and on. All of these devices - to which we would have to add the microscope, photography, and film - have helped to redefine the visible and the invisible, making our point of view something much more fluid, erasing our bearings, our landmarks, and raising unknown creatures from the deep. How have artists incorporated or anticipated the series of upheavals that have redrawn the mental grid humans use to comprehend an immense watery territory that extends from beaches to the ocean depths?
The layout of the show offers visitors a narrative. They will discover how a collective desire to preserve the mystery and beauty of the sea is anchored in an emotional and aesthetic relationship to the natural world, one that has taken shape in a story and a history that have been told in images. On the museum’s first floor and continuing on the second, three themes are developed in turn, the shore, the deep, and the abyss.
Taking shape in the 19th century, these themes, however much dramatized, reappropriated, even deconstructed, remain no less identifiable in contemporary art. Today when we are increasingly aware of the role we humans play in degrading ecosystems, when maritime borders are causing a number of conflicts, they form a theatre of questions that are proving absolutely relevant to our day and age.