Art Museum
Photo Elysée
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Photo Elysée is an art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
About Photo Elysée
Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod. It was housed in an 18th-century mansion until October 2020.
The museum was temporarily closed from October 2020 until June 2022, as it was moving to a new building. The new building is designed by Portuguese architects Aires Mateus. It has merged with two other museums; the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts.
Succeeding Tatyana Franck, Nathalie Herschdorfer has been in charge since June 2022.
Photo Elysée by the numbers
- Founded
- 1985
Plan your visit
Photo Elysée
- Website
- www.elysee.ch
Museums near Photo Elysée
- Art Museum Kunstmuseum Basel Basel, Switzerland
- Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Lyon, France
- Art Museum Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich, Switzerland
- Art Museum Kunsthaus Zürich Zurich, Switzerland
- National Museum Museo Egizio Turin, Italy
- German Clock Museum Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany
