Exhibitions

An arts district, a square before the city railway station… Plateforme 10 has been built on the site of a former Swiss railroad workshop and yard. It lies at the heart of the historic transformation of Lausanne’s main station. For the inauguration of this new neighborhood, the 3 museums making up Plateforme 10 – MCBA, mudac, and Photo Elysée – have decided to pay homage to the site’s railroading past with 3 exceptional shows organized around the common theme laid out by the overall title, TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN. Simply “train” in Switzerland’s four official languages, the title suggests a whole program that clearly reflects Switzerland’s collective imagination.

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN

An arts district, a square before the city railway station… Plateforme 10 has been built on the site of a former Swiss railroad workshop and yard. It lies at the heart of the historic transformation of Lausanne’s main station. For the inauguration of this new neighborhood, the 3 museums making up Plateforme 10 – MCBA, mudac, and Photo Elysée – have decided to pay homage to the site’s railroading past with 3 exceptional shows organized around the common theme laid out by the overall title, TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN. Simply “train” in Switzerland’s four official languages, the title suggests a whole program that clearly reflects Switzerland’s collective imagination.

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1 theme, 3 exhibitions

Alluding to railroad imagery and the important role it has played throughout the history of art and art making since the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN is the result of an intense cross-disciplinary collaboration of the 3 museums of Plateforme 10.

The show brings together and sets in dialogue a number of masterpieces and great classics by a range of artists, from Hopper to de Chirico, and includes pieces from all the fields of contemporary creativity, from design and photography to advertising. The three individual shows making up TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN are a stunning piece of work and the very heart of the arts district and its inaugural program.

MCBA

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN
Voyages imaginaires

Voyages imaginaires (Imaginary Journeys) boasts over 60 masterpieces by a range of artists, from Giorgio de Chirico and Edward Hopper to Paul Delvaux and Leonor Fini. The show invites visitors to discover how the image of the railroad train, that symbol of the Industrial Revolution par excellence, came to crystallize fascinating and essential reflections on artistic representation of a world that seemed to have been suddenly swept up in an acceleration without limits.


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mudac

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN
Let’s meet at the station

Alluding to railroad imagery and the important role it has played throughout the history of art and art making since the Industrial Revolution, the exhibition TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN is the result of an intense cross-disciplinary collaboration of the 3 museums of Plateforme 10. The show brings together and sets in dialogue a number of masterpieces and great classics by a range of artists, from Hopper to de Chirico, and includes pieces from all the fields of contemporary creativity, from design and photography to advertising. The three individual shows making up TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN are a stunning piece of work and the very heart of the arts district and its inaugural program.

 

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Photo Elysée

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN
Crossing lines

Destins croisés (Crossing Lines) interweaves the visions, dreamlands, and spirit of conquest that have accompanied railroading from the outset. Learning to use and understand trains, the kinds of sociability that are specific to stations and railcars, the faces of railroad workers, the alternative practices of today – Destins croisés, a show teeming with discoveries to be made, aims to develop new approaches to the world of railroads.


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Exhibitions

The Collection

Permanent presentation

« Come and see here what you won’t see elsewhere! » is the slogan for the permanent exhibition, laid out chronologically over two floors to showcase treasures from Vaud’s art collections, with some three hundred works dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.

 

Marina Xenofontos. Play Life

06.02 – 02.08.2026

Through her sculptures, found objects, writing and films, Marina Xenofontos interrogates the material manifestations of memory and history. For her show in the Espace Projet, she explores the question of space, both virtual and real.

Jean Tschumi Designer

27.02 – 26.04.2026

The mudac is inaugurating its new exhibition space, Le carré, with Jean Tschumi Designer. This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Artistic Commission of Vaudoise Assurances, focuses on a particular aspect of the great Swiss architect’s work: his furniture designs for Le Cèdre, the headquarters of Vaudoise Assurances in Lausanne.

Les Monstrueuses

07.11.2025 – 22.03.2026

In 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts of the City of Lausanne (mudac) will give Swiss designer Kévin Germanier carte blanche to take over the museum with the same originality and creativity that have characterised his approach to fashion for several years.

Times in Tapestry

07.11.2025 – 08.03.2026

mudac and Fondation Toms Pauli are proud to present an exceptional exhibition dedicated to tapestry as a vector for social and political discourse.