Musée de l'Elysee
The Musée de l'Elysée is a photography museum in Lausanne , Switzerland .
The museum is located in a former mansion in the Little Ouchy area , overlooking Lake Geneva .
history
The museum building was built in 1780–1783 by the architect Abraham Fraisse for a Swiss army officer and is surrounded by an extensive park-like area. The property was acquired and renovated by the Swiss state in 1971. In October 1971 the museum was founded by Charles-Henri Favrod .
Today there are eight different exhibition areas on the four floors of the house, in which both permanent exhibitions and changing themed exhibitions are shown. The Musée de l'Elysée holds over 100,000 original photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, including photographs by Francis Frith , Robert Capa , John Phillips , Marco Giacomelli and a unique collection of the first color photographs by Gabriel Lippmann . One focus is also the presentation of Swiss photographers such as Nicolas Bouvier , Adolphe Braun , Ella Maillart and Hans Steiner . The photographer René Burri, who died in October 2014, also bequeathed his photographic legacy to the museum. The Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss, who lives in Paris, was born in 1924 and decided in 2017 that her estate should be looked after by the Musée de l'Elysée after her death.
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- ↑ Chronicler of the Century. faz.net , October 21, 2014, accessed October 21, 2014
- ↑ Internal photo: July 7, 2017 Sabine Weiss' estate goes to the Musée Elysée , July 7, 2017, accessed on April 24, 2020
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '35.4 " N , 6 ° 37' 58" E ; CH1903: 538,149 / 151265