Photo Elysée, Photography museum in Lausanne, Switzerland

Photo Élysée is a photography museum in Lausanne, housed since June 2022 in a building by Portuguese architects Aires Mateus within the Plateforme 10 arts district beside the train station. It shares the site with the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts and the mudac design museum, forming a 25,000 m² arts complex. Its holdings of roughly 199,000 prints range from 19th-century daguerreotypes to digital prints.

Photo Élysée was founded in October 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod and first occupied the Campagne de l'Élysée, a mansion built between 1780 and 1783 by architect Abraham Fraisse for Henri de Mollins. The house, named Élysée in 1834, had hosted Mme de Staël's 1807 performances of Andromaque. The museum closed in September 2020 and reopened in June 2022 at Plateforme 10, taking its new name in September 2021.

The museum has awarded the Prix Elysée since 2014, with winners including Martin Kollár (2015), Matthias Bruggmann (2017), Luis Carlos Tovar (2019), Kurt Tong (2021) and Debi Cornwall (2023). At the end of June it organises the Nuit des Images, held in the museum gardens until 2020. Its collection also holds the archives of Charlie Chaplin, Ella Maillart and Nicolas Bouvier.

Photo Élysée occupies one of the three buildings of Plateforme 10, the arts district beside Lausanne's main station; the museum shares the building with the mudac. It reopened there in June 2022 after a 21-month closure for the move. The whole Plateforme 10 complex covers 25,000 m² devoted to the arts, so allow time to cross between the museums.

The museum holds Charlie Chaplin's collection of around 10,000 photographs, acquired in 2011, as well as the archive of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the children of Emperor Nicholas II. The entire collections of Ella Maillart and Nicolas Bouvier were bequeathed to it.