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Three museums – the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Musée de l’Elysée (photography museum) and the mudac (museum of design and contemporary applied arts) – set out to meet their audience on a trail which leads to their future common site, the Pôle muséal near the Swiss Railways locomotive workshops at Lausanne station.
The Kader Attia exhibition at the Palais de Rumine is the starting point for a trail which leads to the Espace Arlaud where the Museum was founded in 1841; the building will once again be a museum and an art school, with contemporary artists holding drawing workshops there; further along, La Palud square recalls its history with an updated watercolour by Louis Ducros; at the opera, interior decorations by Alice Bailly are “finished off” with an intervention by Sandrine Pelletier; the penultimate stage takes place in one of the flagship institutions for contemporary art in Switzerland, the Circuit art space; and finally the tour ends close to the station with an installation by an internationally renowned artist. The Vallotton and Toms Pauli foundations, which will be joining the Musée des Beaux-Arts in its new building, are involved in the project and have carte blanche in that respect.