Hermitage Foundation, Art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Hermitage Foundation occupies a manor house rebuilt between 1852 and 1855 for the Lausanne banker Charles-Juste Bugnion, on a hill above the city within the Parc de l'Hermitage. The main facade is 29.2 m wide with five bays per level; the south side has a balcony, the sides carry galleries on stone piers and metal posts, and the roof is hipped. Inside, a T-shaped plan centres on a large corridor.

Charles-Juste Bugnion bought the Hermitage estate in 1841 and had the manor rebuilt between 1852 and 1855, possibly to plans by Louis Wenger. In 1976 his family gave the house to Lausanne, and a foundation was created to restore it and hold two to three art exhibitions a year. The first, on Impressionism in Romandie collections, opened in 1984; since then some 80 exhibitions have drawn over two million visitors.

The museum is named after the estate Bugnion bought in 1841, and a room is permanently devoted to his family. The first exhibition, in 1984, was L'impressionnisme dans les collections romandes; since then some 80 shows have drawn over two million visitors. François Daulte, the founding director, curated more than 30 of them.

The museum sits on a hill above Lausanne, at Route du Signal 2, surrounded by the Parc de l'Hermitage. The lower floor holds a modern extension wing alongside the permanent Chinese ceramics display, while the manor's rooms host temporary exhibitions; a bookshop completes the visit. The grounds and park are reached on foot from the city centre.

The lower floor holds the Collection Vergottis, around 400 Chinese ceramics from the 12th to the 19th century assembled by Marie Vergottis, a collector from a Greek shipowning family. It is shown permanently beside a modern extension wing, and one room is devoted to the Bugnion family.