Plateforme 10, Arts district next to railway station in Centre, Switzerland
Plateforme 10 is an arts district beside Lausanne's main railway station, on the 25,000 m² site of the former CFF locomotive halls. It gathers the cantonal fine arts museum (MCBA), the Musée de l'Élysée for photography and the mudac for contemporary design, plus the Toms Pauli and Félix Vallotton foundations. The MCBA building was designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, winners of the 2011 competition.
The site once served as a railway locomotive repair workshop before being transformed into a cultural destination in recent decades. The fine arts museum opened in 2019, marking the start of this shift to cultural use.
The three museums present rotating exhibitions exploring visual arts, photography, and design through different cultural lenses. You can walk through galleries showing how artists and designers communicate ideas across time and traditions.
You can buy a single ticket to visit all three museums, giving you flexibility to explore at your own pace. Restaurants on the site let you take a break if you plan to spend several hours there.
The Toms Pauli Foundation, created in 2000 and housed in the MCBA building, studies and conserves ancient and modern textile art owned by the canton of Vaud. Its director is Giselle Eberhard Cotton and its president Eric Rochat. The Felix Vallotton Foundation, founded in 1998, keeps the painter's archives in the same building.
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