Museum

Explore mudac – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts – at the heart of Plateforme 10.

Missions

Welcome to mudac, a Swiss museum dedic­ated to global and contem­por­ary design, nestled in the Plate­forme 10 arts district in Lausanne. A major player on the design scene, mudac stands out for its programme of daring exhib­i­tions, its commit­ment to applied research, and its creat­ive prac­tices aimed at all audi­ences as it explores desir­able futures.

Located in an iconic build­ing designed by the archi­tec­tural firm Aires Mateus, mudac acts as a genu­ine labor­at­ory where scientific meth­ods and creativ­ity converge to boldly tackle contem­por­ary issues. A strong advoc­ate of the trans­form­at­ive poten­tial of design­ers, it offers exhib­i­tions, public programmes, and design and research projects that range from the applied arts to product design, archi­tec­tural spaces, and urban plan­ning, open­ing up all the fields of design.

Thanks to a rich programme of events and collab­or­a­tions with design­ers, histor­i­ans, and research­ers, mudac exposes innov­at­ive narrat­ives both locally and inter­na­tion­ally. Join us to discover how design can help shape our world and address modern chal­lenges with bold­ness and determ­in­a­tion.

Values

Plate­forme 10

The merger of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA), Photo Elysée, and mudac, together with the Toms Pauli and Félix Vallot­ton found­a­tions, forms a 25,000 m² arts district in the heart of Lausanne.

Archi­tec­ture

The project by Portuguese archi­tects Aires Mateus show­cases the comple­ment­ary nature of the two museums, Photo Elysée and mudac, on either side of the light gap that marks the shared entrance. Open on all four sides, the forum/entrance hall brings together all the shared func­tions: recep­tion, book­shop, and cafet­eria.

Timeline

From 1967 to 2000 at Avenue de Villa­mont, then from 2000 to 2021 at Place de la Cathéd­rale, and currently at Plate­forme 10, mudac contin­ues to promote trans­dis­cip­lin­ar­ity and dynamic exchanges with other discip­lines.