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Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
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The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nearby attractions
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Pl. de la Gare 17, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lausanne Mosque
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L'Impression Cafe Restaurant| Brunch Lausanne
Av. Louis-Ruchonnet 15, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
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PLATEFORME 10
Pl. de la Gare 16/17, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Nandanam
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Brasserie de Montbenon
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Le Milan
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LITTLE PERSIA
Av. Louis-Ruchonnet 7, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
Le Ticino - Restaurant Lausanne
Pl. de la Gare 12, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
tibits
Pl. de la Gare 11, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hôtel AlaGare
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Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts
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Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts

Pl. de la Gare 17, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
4.4(274)
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The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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attractions: Musée de l'Elysée, Cantonal museum of fine arts Lausanne, Explanada de Montbenon, Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne Mosque, Skatepark & Association La Fièvre, Lausanne Botanical Garden, Musée de la machine à écrire de Lausanne, Bô Noël, marché de Noël, Lausanne Cathedral, restaurants: L'Impression Cafe Restaurant| Brunch Lausanne, Barbecue Coréen - Au Gourmand, PLATEFORME 10, Le Nabi, Nandanam, Brasserie de Montbenon, Le Milan, LITTLE PERSIA, Le Ticino - Restaurant Lausanne, tibits
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+41 21 318 44 00
Website
mudac.ch

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Nearby attractions of Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts

Musée de l'Elysée

Cantonal museum of fine arts Lausanne

Explanada de Montbenon

Casino de Montbenon

Lausanne Mosque

Skatepark & Association La Fièvre

Lausanne Botanical Garden

Musée de la machine à écrire de Lausanne

Bô Noël, marché de Noël

Lausanne Cathedral

Musée de l'Elysée

Musée de l'Elysée

4.5

(415)

Open 24 hours
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Cantonal museum of fine arts Lausanne

Cantonal museum of fine arts Lausanne

4.5

(841)

Open 24 hours
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Explanada de Montbenon

Explanada de Montbenon

4.5

(1.8K)

Open until 12:00 AM
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Casino de Montbenon

Casino de Montbenon

4.5

(646)

Closed
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L'Impression Cafe Restaurant| Brunch Lausanne

Barbecue Coréen - Au Gourmand

PLATEFORME 10

Le Nabi

Nandanam

Brasserie de Montbenon

Le Milan

LITTLE PERSIA

Le Ticino - Restaurant Lausanne

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Sebastian ReizSebastian Reiz
This museum for design and contemporary art was previously located in a small building with an endless number of floors in La Cité, facing the cathedral. It has now lost its soul. Like its neighbors on Platform 10, the main exhibition relates to trains, railway stations, railroads and passengers and their luggage. This section is really interesting and well curated. The contemporary and applied art section that you will find if you search deep into one of the corners of the first floor is a nothingburger although you might possibly enjoy an Icelander walking in his local river while speaking his patois... Now recently in the spring of 2023 there are two most interesting exhibits, one features design in Beirut, Lebanon over time till today and the other is a dialogue between an octopus and and a citrus press, a kind of interesting title. Needless to say, go visit the design museum before these exhibitions are over!
O OpinieO Opinie
Museum of contemporary "art". The place is terrible. No information in English, staff wasn't nice. The lady at reception wanted to sell us tickets for 3 museums, even though we had only an hour to spend. As well we were not asked about if we are under 26yo or students. Guy from France/Switzerland was asked that just after we paid. So we paid full price, even though we could get a discount, as foreigners we were almost forced to get tickets for three museums, even though we had an hour. In the entrance we were asked to throw away our water, and a minute after, we saw the same man who asked for that, drinking water at the exhibition. Really? What is this place. Art was bad, not much in English, staff definitely not nice for foreigners from other countries. Not worth visiting and wasting money. As a picture you can see how we felt during the exhibition.
Michelle KamMichelle Kam
Mudac is an absolute must go! Also part of the new arts district Plateforme 10, I got the ticket that gave me entry to all 3 museums (Photo Elysee, MCBA & Mudac). They are having a promotion whereby instead of 25CHF for one entry to each of the 3 museums within the period of 3 months, it’s now 19CHF. I really enjoyed the Surrealism exhibition! There was even an exhibition book at the entrance which provided insights on the pieces. I went in on a weekday and there was only a handful of people so it pretty much felt like I had the museum to myself! It’s definitely worth checking out this lovely museum. And if you’ve got the time, hop on over to Photo Elysee which is just downstairs.
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This museum for design and contemporary art was previously located in a small building with an endless number of floors in La Cité, facing the cathedral. It has now lost its soul. Like its neighbors on Platform 10, the main exhibition relates to trains, railway stations, railroads and passengers and their luggage. This section is really interesting and well curated. The contemporary and applied art section that you will find if you search deep into one of the corners of the first floor is a nothingburger although you might possibly enjoy an Icelander walking in his local river while speaking his patois... Now recently in the spring of 2023 there are two most interesting exhibits, one features design in Beirut, Lebanon over time till today and the other is a dialogue between an octopus and and a citrus press, a kind of interesting title. Needless to say, go visit the design museum before these exhibitions are over!
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Museum of contemporary "art". The place is terrible. No information in English, staff wasn't nice. The lady at reception wanted to sell us tickets for 3 museums, even though we had only an hour to spend. As well we were not asked about if we are under 26yo or students. Guy from France/Switzerland was asked that just after we paid. So we paid full price, even though we could get a discount, as foreigners we were almost forced to get tickets for three museums, even though we had an hour. In the entrance we were asked to throw away our water, and a minute after, we saw the same man who asked for that, drinking water at the exhibition. Really? What is this place. Art was bad, not much in English, staff definitely not nice for foreigners from other countries. Not worth visiting and wasting money. As a picture you can see how we felt during the exhibition.
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Mudac is an absolute must go! Also part of the new arts district Plateforme 10, I got the ticket that gave me entry to all 3 museums (Photo Elysee, MCBA & Mudac). They are having a promotion whereby instead of 25CHF for one entry to each of the 3 museums within the period of 3 months, it’s now 19CHF. I really enjoyed the Surrealism exhibition! There was even an exhibition book at the entrance which provided insights on the pieces. I went in on a weekday and there was only a handful of people so it pretty much felt like I had the museum to myself! It’s definitely worth checking out this lovely museum. And if you’ve got the time, hop on over to Photo Elysee which is just downstairs.
Michelle Kam

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4.4
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3.0
2y

Visually interesting exhibition of chairs in all their many guises. Beautifully presented in the new MUDAC building, just a stone’s throw from Lausanne station. Very airy and spacious entrance hall. Getting tickets was easy (11.00 a.m.), weekday. The reception by the steward at the top of the stairs was non existent and no instructions, help or guidance were offered or provided. Once in the upper gallery, the exhibits were well laid out and the exhibition brochure gave useful descriptions each chair. However, there was a constant, irritating whistling of a tune which repeated, on a loop, every minute. This was akin to torture. Escaping this dreadful noise, we progressed to the next room - to be greeted by incessant jungle drumming - again on a loop. This was a major distraction from the interesting exhibits. Wanting to get away from this noise, we scratched our heads as to where to go next. No instructions! Consulting a steward, whose only task it seemed was to stop people touching the exhibits, we were grudgingly told to exit the room through a low black square in the far wall. Crouching down to do this, we entered a dark room, with chairs suspended in the air occasionally lit up by spotlights. Fortunately, the music was soothing in there - a wonderful balm to the earlier cacophony. However, again no instructions on how to exit this space. We eventually spied some scrawled writing on the floor by a curtain, which led us through a space age style corridor, where a series of portholes showed a kaleidoscope of glittering chairs suspended in space. By then, we were ready to leave the exhibition as quickly as possible and go and have lunch. The presenters have tried too hard with the result that the quirky, banale sound accompaniment (the stupid « A Chair and You » corridor as case in point) is a major distraction. But the clever and inventive exhibits probably make it worth a visit. Probably best to...

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4.0
2y

Enormes architektonisches Werk der apodiktischen Kuratoren, die sich hier ein Monument des zeitgenössischen Stils manifestiert haben. Die Ausstellung des Mudac im ersten Stock und die des Photo Elysee im Untergeschoss werden durch das Erdgeschoss mit Café, geschlechtsneutralen Sanitäranlagen (die recht clever und geräumig angelegt sind, inklusive Wickelraum - der allerdings von jungen Müttern ignoriert wird, die ihre Kinder lieber vor den - durchaus praktischen - Garderobenschränken auf dem Boden säubern und wickeln, damit andere Besucher nicht an den benutzten Schrank kommen) getrennt. - Nicht zu vergessen der gut sortierte Museumsshop ! Die aktuelle Ausstellung "Space is the Place" fand ich sehr interessant, insbesondere, dass sich hochbegabte Mütter mit ihren noch hochbegabteren 2-3 jährigen Kindern so intensiv mit Gravitation, kopernikanischer Revolution und metaphysischer Kausalität von Ursache und Wirkung beschäftigen, dass man selbst die Zusammenhänge verliert - beeindruckend. Etwas verwirrend ist auch die Kombination mit den Tickets der anderen Museen: Da ich ein Kombiticket für Platforme 10 / MCBA Mudac und Photo Elysee gekauft hatte, stellte sich erst vor Ort heraus, dass 1. die Sonderausstellung im MCBA geschlossen war, das Mudac dienstags geschlossen ist und das Photo Elysee einen ganzen Monat wegen Renovierung geschlossen war, was man wie gesagt erst vor Ort erfahren konnte. Weder auf Platform 10 noch auf anderen Kombiticketanbietern SBB etc. war dies ersichtlich - schade. Ich würde daher davon abraten, die Tickets online zu kaufen, da man nicht sicher sein kann, wirklich alle drei Museen gleichzeitig geöffnet vorzufinden. Énorme travail architectural des conservateurs apodictiques qui ont manifesté ici un monument du style contemporain. L'exposition du Mudac au premier étage et celle de la Photo Elysee au sous-sol sont séparées par le rez-de-chaussée avec un café, des sanitaires non mixtes (qui sont plutôt astucieux et spacieux, y compris un espace pour changer les enfants - qui est toutefois ignoré par les jeunes mamans qui préfèrent nettoyer et changer leurs enfants devant les armoires vestiaires - tout à fait pratiques - posées sur le sol, afin que les autres visiteurs ne puissent pas atteindre l'armoire utilisée). - Sans oublier la boutique bien achalandée du musée ! J'ai trouvé l'exposition actuelle "Space is the Place" très intéressante, en particulier le fait que des mères surdouées et leurs enfants de 2-3 ans encore plus surdoués s'intéressent de si près à la gravitation, à la révolution copernicienne et à la causalité métaphysique des causes et des effets que l'on en perd soi-même le contexte - impressionnant. La combinaison avec les billets des autres musées est également un peu déroutante : comme j'avais acheté un billet combiné pour la Plateforme 10 / MCBA Mudac et Photo Elysee, ce n'est que sur place qu'il s'est avéré que 1. l'exposition spéciale du MCBA était fermée, que le Mudac était fermé le mardi et que le Photo Elysee était fermé pendant tout un mois pour rénovation, ce que, comme je l'ai dit, on ne pouvait apprendre que sur place. Ni sur Platform 10 ni sur d'autres fournisseurs de billets combinés CFF etc. cela n'était visible - dommage. Je déconseille donc d'acheter les billets en ligne, car on ne peut pas être sûr de trouver vraiment les trois musées ouverts...

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4.0
3y

This museum for design and contemporary art was previously located in a small building with an endless number of floors in La Cité, facing the cathedral. It has now lost its soul. Like its neighbors on Platform 10, the main exhibition relates to trains, railway stations, railroads and passengers and their luggage. This section is really interesting and well curated. The contemporary and applied art section that you will find if you search deep into one of the corners of the first floor is a nothingburger although you might possibly enjoy an Icelander walking in his local river while speaking his patois... Now recently in the spring of 2023 there are two most interesting exhibits, one features design in Beirut, Lebanon over time till today and the other is a dialogue between an octopus and and a citrus press, a kind of interesting title. Needless to say, go visit the design museum before these...

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