© Mathieu Bernard-Reymond - Musée d’art de Pully © Mathieu Bernard-Reymond - Musée d’art de Pully

Museums

Historical, classic and innovative museums...

The museums in Lausanne are steeped in history. Their exhibitions leave a lasting impression on visitors and are known far and wide. Classic, historic, innovative and cutting edge, Lausanne’s museums offer an incredible variety of exhibitions in every genre for young and old, experts or amateurs. Lausanne is itself a jewel in the crown of Swiss culture and showcases it with a cultural calendar packed with unmissable exhibitions.

Maison Lavaux
The Maison Lavaux exhibition: a historical, human and cultural immersi...
© Le Musée Olympique
The Olympic Museum
A marathon of emotions. Would you like to relive great Olympic moments...
© Caroline Smyrliadis
Collection de l'Art Brut
A quintessential museum in Lausanne's cultural landscape, the Collecti...
© Lorenz Richard
Musée de l’Elysée
Photo Elysée is one of the biggest museums in Switzerland and the worl...
© Khashayar Javanmardi
Plateforme 10
Located in the heart of Lausanne, a short walk from the SBB station, P...
© Intuifilm & Trivial mass
Lausanne History Museum
The Musée historique de Lausanne (MHL), renovated in 2018, is the idea...
© KHASHAYAR JAVANMARDI
mudac
As the sole design-dedicated institution in French-speaking Switzerlan...
© KHASHAYAR_JAVANMARDI
Vaud Museum of Fine Arts (mcb-a)
The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA) has been putting ...
© Sarah Jaquemet
Inventions Space
- TEMPORARY CLOSURE FOR WORKS FROM 28 APRIL 2025 TO EARLY 2026 - Th...
© Mathilda Olmi
Swiss Film Archives
The Swiss Film Archives owns a collection of over 40,000 titles and is...
© Visions du corps, Sébastien Baudet [syp•ia], 2014 / Musée de la main UNIL-CHUV
Museum of the Hand - UNIL-CHUV
The Hand Museum presents interactive exhibitions on topical themes tha...
© Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy
Roman museum Lausanne-Vidy
A stone’s throw from Lake Geneva, the Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy te...
© Michel Krafft/MZL
Espace Arlaud
In a beautiful building on the Place de la Riponne, the Espace Arlaud ...
© Michel Krafft
Vaud Zoology Museum
The Naturéum’s zoology collections have occupied the neo-Florentine bu...
© Laurent Mäusli, Fondation de l'Hermitage
Fondation de l'Hermitage
The Fondation de l’Hermitage in Lausanne is a showcase of Swiss and in...
© Mathieu Bernard-Reymond - Musée d'art de Pully
Pully Museum
A beautiful and completely restored building, the museum adjoins the f...
© MCAH
Vaud Archaeology and History Museum
Housed in the Palais de Rumine, on the Place de la Riponne in the cent...
© Archeolab
ArchéoLab
The ArchéoLab is a discovery space for budding young inquisitive minds...
© Sarah Vez
f'ar
Submersion in the heart of architecture, town planning and everything ...
© Michel Krafft/MZL
Palais de Rumine
Today, the Palais de Rumine houses the Naturéum - Cantonal museum of n...
© LT/ www.diapo.ch
Lausanne botanical museum and garden
Tucked away in the heights of Lausanne, the Botanical Gardens offer a ...
© LT/www.diapo.ch
Vaud Geology Museum
A real history book, the Naturéum’s geology collections are packed ful...
© Alain Herzog/EPFL
The Musée Bolo
Since 2002, the Musée Bolo - Swiss Museum of information technology, d...
© Musée de la machine à écrire
Typewriter Museum
This museum tells the story of a passion passed down from father to so...
The Archives of Modern Construction
A wealth of architecture on paper: that is their treasure. It is in t...
© LT/ www.diapo.ch
Centre Général Guisan
Situated in the middle of a magnificent park in Pully, this centre is...
© Archizoom, EPFL
Archizoom
The Department of Architecture of the EPFL, and now the Institute of ...
© Phillip Waterton
ArtLab
EPFL Pavilions is EPFL's cultural platform where art, research and te...
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