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

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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

Isao Takahata

24.04 – 27.09.2026

The exhibition, unique in Switzerland, retraces Takahata’s career, from Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974) to Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013), through his notebooks and storyboards, original drawings, cels, film and video excerpts and audiovisual documents.

What about us?

24.04 – 27.09.2026

With more than 300 glass animals, from the collection of distinguished art historian and Honorary Director of the Louvre Pierre Rosenberg, and pieces from his donation to the musée du Grand Siècle, the exhibition highlights the delicacy of Murano glass animals while questioning our ambivalent relationship with living beings.

Jean Tschumi Designer

27.02 – 31.05.2026

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.

Ella Maillart

06.03 – 01.11.2026

The exhibition Ella Maillart Photographic Encounters pays tribute to the photographer, traveler and writer on the occasion of her archives being included in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Photo Elysée presents a selection of photographs taken by Maillart during her travels in Asia in the 1930s.   

Luc Delahaye

06.03 – 31.05.2026

The Echo of the World is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Luc Delahaye, a renowned former photojournalist. Presented by Photo Elysée in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, it showcases twenty-five years of his creative work. Through his large-format photographic compositions, the artist documents contemporary wars and sites of power.

Salvatore Vitale

06.03 – 31.05.2026

Through a series of photographs, installations and videos, Salvatore Vitale’s exhibition, SABOTAGE, explores the gig economy and the algorithms that are transforming the world of work. By navigating the contradictions of digital capitalism and the various forms of resistance to it, the exhibition offers visitors a deep dive into the new realities of work in the digital age.  

Otobong Nkanga. I dreamt of you in colours

03.04 – 23.08.2026

MCBA, in collaboration with the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, is presenting a major exhibition devoted to the work of Otobong Nkanga. Conceived in collaboration with the artist, it features emblematic installations, photo series, recent works, and a significant number of drawings, some of which date from her early artmaking days and are being shown for the first time.

French Painting 1800-1945. Anatomy of a Collection

13.03 – 16.08.2026

Mounted in the MCBA Espace Focus gallery and within The collection, the display of the museum’s permanent collection, the show French Painting 1800-1945. Anatomy of a Collection invites visitors to rediscover the many masterpieces of French painting conserved in the museum. These are pieces signed by a number of major French artists, including Corot, Courbet, Degas, Cezanne, Matisse, and Bonnard. It is also the chance to discover paintings that are rarely on view.

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.