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Top 10 Amazing Facts about Elysee Museum

Photo Elysée is among the most valuable museums solely devoted to photography. Annually, they create challenging displays, share reference editorial content, plan creative occasions, and make them available to the public.

Since its inception in 1985 as a “museum for photography,” Photo Elysée has questioned the medium’s constant reconstruction through the iconic leaders who have shaped its legacy by envisioning fresh methods of seeing or making people see, while disclosing evolving photography that, through unseen perspectives, testifies to the present era and foreshadows that of tomorrow.

In other words, to cover all aspects of photography, to explore them occasionally, and, above all, to re-discover them.

1.There is a showcase full of picture inside the amazing museum

The museum’s archive of over 1,200,000 phototypes spans the history of photography, from the very first materials obtained in the 1840s to the digital image. It involves extensive photographic collections or archives from Sabine Weiss, Jan Groover, René Burri, Ella Maillart, Nicolas Bouvier, Charlie Chaplin, Gertrude Fehr, Hans Steiner, and Olivier Föllmi, among others.

2.Here is where the beautiful museum is located

Photo Elysée opened to the public on June 18, 2022, in the heart of Plateforme 10, Lausanne’s arts district, in a building designed by the Portuguese architects Aires Mateus and shared with the mudac.

The  exhibition spaces, designed by Studio Adrien Gardère, integrate temporary exhibitions on a divisible surface of 850 square meters, an area devoted to the museum’s archives of 150 square meters – attainable with zero charge -, a room devoted to digital creation – the LabElysée – of 110 square meters, and two innovative educational spaces (Le Studio and l’Atelier) of 228 square meters on a 1400 square meter versatile and modular museum activity platform.

3.Brief history of Elysee Museum and its significance to the country

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Until its relocation to Plateforme 10 in June 2022, the museum was located in an exquisite mansion in the Little Ouchy neighbourhood. Henri de Mollins (1729-1811), a Swiss officer serving the Dutch Royal family and a Major of the regiment stationed in Lausanne, built it between 1780 and 1783.

The mansion, named l’Elysée in 1834, is set in a beautiful park with a spectacular view of the lake. The canton of Vaud purchased the building in 1971 to be fully repaired and partially designed as a museum.

Between 1980 and 1985, it housed the canton of Vaud’s Print Collection, which was eventually moved to Vevey following the establishment of the Musée de l’Elysée as a photography museum by Charles-Henri Favrod in October 1985.

4.Architecture of the museum and the different showcases found

This entrance hall, an authentic forum open on all four sides, brings together all the shared functions: ticket office, bookshop, store, and cafeteria.

A staircase leads to the ground-floor Photo Elysée exhibition spaces and the second-floor mudac. Since the exhibition spaces are flexible, they allow for the presentation of collections and the scenography of temporary exhibitions to be deployed in a flexible manner.

The basement storage and technical services ensure optimal collection conservation, while administrative spaces surround the central building to the north and west, which is entirely dedicated to the public.

5.A cultural gateway for the younger photographers

Since 2013, the Institution de Lavigny has worked with the Musée de L’Elysée on a custom-made training course called Passerelle Culturelle. The opportunity for young people aged 16 to 20 with developmental or learning disabilities to gain their first professional experience through participation in the view of culture.

It all began with the effort of the former director of the Ecole Passerelle, one of the Institution de Lavigny’s departments. Deborah Galmiche approached the Musée de l’Elysée to publish the project in search of an internship for one of the young people at this specific curriculum institution. The Lausanne university has agreed to host a student for three weeks.

6.Here is a program offered to tourists who are interested

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The current is going well, and the internship has been extended to allow the Elysée and the Lavigny Institution to get to know each other. “Deborah Galmiche described the specific school career of young students at Lavigny who frequently do not fit into a learning curve.”

She wanted to offer them more time to figure things out and perhaps build less ancient traditions. “It was because of this reflection that she began to search partnership with a cultural institution, and she thought of us,” recalls Sinje Kappes, the museum’s Passerelle Culturelle denotation.

7.The Elysée is central to the research work

Passerelle Culturelle now employs eight young people in as many institutions. Whereas other collaborators have joined this training, the Musée de l’Elysée remains the project’s focal point: “Theoretical courses are held in the museum’s site, as are the few activities that bring together all of the young people of Passerelle Culturelle.

Since 2015, they have been developing and pioneering masterclasses during the Nuit des Images, as well as imagining and managing an activity during the Elysée’s closing event.

“The museum’s relocation gave a chance for them to collaborate for nearly two years on the reprogramming of slides of a background by photographer Jean Mohr,” explains Magali Stoller.

8.Travel Tips for the Musee de L’Elysee

Tourists with disabilities may enter two of the museums’ floors but not the basement. Furthermore, tourists with disabilities may park their vehicles on the museum grounds. Strollers are not permitted inside, but a baby carrier can be provided upon request.

9.Many members of the French court once called Elysee a home

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From 1721 to 1764, the palace was home to Madame de Pompadour, Nicolas Beaujon from 1718 to 1786, Bathilde d’Orléans from 1750 to 1822, Joachim Murat from 1767 to 1815, and Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry from 1767 to 1815. (1778–1820). On December 12th, the French Parliament, acting under the Second Republic, approved a statute designating the structure as the official residence of France’s President. The palace contains 365 chambers. The president is sworn in during the ceremony, and the Council of Ministers meets in the Salon Murat, a grand hall.

10.The gorgeous museum has an amazing finishing to it

Chandeliers, tapestries, rare ceramics, and an old collection of pendulum clocks adorn the palace. This is where France’s president usually sits when making major decisions that will be remembered for a long time. The Élysee Palace, located in the heart of Â鶹APP, is a major power center.