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

Om museet

The museum goes back to the Musée des arts décoratifs, which from 1967 was housed on Avenue de Villamont in Lausanne. From 2000 to 2021 it was located on Place de la Cathédrale, and today it goes by the short name mudac.

Today the mudac is located in the Plateforme 10 arts district near Lausanne station. It shares the building, designed by the Portuguese architects Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, with the photography museum Photo Élysée; together with the MCBA, the three institutions form the cantonal museums of Plateforme 10. It opened in June 2022.

The collection has two focuses. The design collection numbers over 920 objects from furniture and lighting design, fashion, tableware, textiles and high-tech products, with an emphasis on designers from French-speaking Switzerland; it is to be expanded into an archive of Romandie design. The collection of contemporary glass art is considered the largest in Europe: it contains almost 700 works by international artists from 1950 to the present. They are shown in exhibitions that address design in the broadest sense, from product design to urban planning.

Højdepunkter

• Europe's largest collection of contemporary glass art with almost 700 works
• Design collection with over 920 objects and a focus on French-speaking Switzerland
• Building by the architects Aires Mateus, shared with Photo Élysée
• Exhibitions on design from products to urbanism
• Free admission on the first Saturday of the month

Grundlagt

1967

Ejer

Fondation Plateforme 10 (Kanton Waadt)

Ledelse

Marco Costantini

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: Every first Saturday of the month (all exhibitions).

Holders of the ICOM card, the CarteCulture and the Raiffeisen card, members of the Association of Swiss Museums (AMS) and friends of the museum also have free admission upon proof. Admission covers the exhibitions.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The entire building is accessible to people with reduced mobility, with adapted toilets on every floor. Folding stools in the exhibition rooms, free wheelchairs at reception, induction loop. Two disabled parking spaces at the end of the access road via Avenue Louis-Ruchonnet. The route from the station (400 m) is uphill, the steps are poorly marked, and the lift is preferable.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Barnevognsvenlig
• Puslerum

Family tours for children aged 6 and over with an accompanying adult, creative workshops "Les minus au musée" for 3- to 5-year-olds, and visits for young parents with newborns on Monday mornings. Strollers are allowed, though access may be restricted at very busy times; changing table and children's toilets on the ground floor.

Transport & parkering

The museum is about 400 m from Lausanne station.

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Restaurant
• Museumsbutik
• Garderobe
• Opbevaringsskabe
• Wi-fi

Café Lumen in the building (closed Tuesday, otherwise 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m.) and the restaurant Le Nabi in the MCBA. Shared bookshop with Photo Élysée. Free cloakroom and lockers (luggage up to 55 × 35 × 20 cm), tokens at reception. Hearing protection ("PAMIR" headphones) and earplugs to borrow.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje

Rooms at Plateforme 10 can be rented, including the foyer and the auditorium of mudac and Photo Élysée.

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