FIRST STONE FOR MUDAC AND ELYSÉE IN SWITZERLAND
The opening of the two museums is still scheduled for autumn 2021. The first building of this project, the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, will be inaugurated in October 2019.
The first stone of the building designed to house the Musée de l'Elysée and the mudac in Platform 10 in Lausanne was laid Friday. A white marble cube of two parts symbolically marks the meeting of these two entities.
Started in early June, the work is progressing according to schedule and the opening of the two museums is scheduled for autumn 2021, says a statement from the township, the city and the various institutions. This construction site corresponds to the second stage of Platform 10, a museum hub, or "arts district", which will be built on 25,000 m2 just a stone's throw from the railway station in the Vaudois capital.
The first building of this project, the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, will be inaugurated in October 2019.
Marble stone
In order to symbolize the meeting of the Elysée Photography Museum, directed by Tatyana Franck, and that of the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac) led by Chantal Prod'Hom, the architects opted for a cube, composed of of two white marble elements. "The two parties put one on the other take the image of the two institutions, and touch in three points," said the statement.
To attend the installation of this stone by state councilors Pascal Broulis and Cesla Amarelle, the trustee of Lausanne Grégoire Junod and the directors of both museums among others, some 500 people had made the trip. Politicians, sponsors, SBB representatives, cultural circles or the economy.
For the Musée de l'Elysée, this new building should allow it to double the exhibition surfaces and to bring together the collections' conservation areas by tripling their volume. The mudac will see him doubled his exhibition spaces.
100 million
The overall budget of this project is 100 million francs. It includes 40 million from the state of Vaud, 20 million from the City of Lausanne and 40 million from contributions from patrons and private partners.
