Just a few short steps from the main train station, Plateforme 10 is the new arts district in Lausanne. Unique in Switzerland, this neighborhood has arisen on the site of a former railway locomotive repair shed. Covering a surface area of more than 25,000 square meters, the site gathers the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA); the Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains / Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac), and Photo Élysée, the Musée cantonal pour la photographie / Cantonal Museum for Photography. 

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN : THE RAILROAD AND TRAIN STATIONS IMAGERY IN THE DNA OF PLATEFORME 10
Announced in Switzerland’s four national languages in the very title, the three opening exhibitions TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN, presented between June 18 and September 25, 2022 are conceived by each of the museums making up Plateforme 10. They enrich the metaphor of this railroad story by paying tribute to the site’s original vocation and its close proximity to Lausanne’s main train station, a stop along the mythic Venice Simplon Orient Express. 
Favoring and encouraging a crossover of views, the three shows reject any literal or strictly chronological approach. They are transdisciplinary as well and prefer to address their subject throughout, symbolizing in a subtle mix of versality and the force of identity, the birth and development of this unique platform, Lausanne’s new arts neighborhood. 
MCBA presents The imagery of trains and with over 60 masterpieces by a range of artists, from Giorgio de Chirico and Edward Hopper to Paul Delvaux and Leonor Fini, the show smotthly whisks us off on a railroad epic. The exhibition Crossing Lines presented at Photo Elysée explores new approaches over more than a cenury and a half of railroad stories. Mudac, with the exhibition Let’s meet at the station, focuses on the idea of meeting and the roman de gare (the pulp novel but literally in France the “train station novel”) and places the individual at the center of its show.


THE ARTS DISTRICT, WHERE CULTURE, LEISURE ACTIVITIES, AND A PLEASANT STROLL COME TOGETHER
The culmination of a major ten-year political undertaking on a national scale, Plateforme 10 and its two museum buildings will be celebrating their opening with a long list of events, shows, and activities. The platform will regularly host a festive cultural program open to all. By turns offbeat and dreamlike, programing will mix dance, theater, contemporary cirucs, performance art, event sound artworks. 
Just a few short steps from the main train station, Plateforme 10 is the new arts district in Lausanne. Unique in Switzerland, this neighborhood has arisen on the site of a former railway locomotive repair shed. Covering a surface area of more than 25,000 square meters, the site gathers the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA); the Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains / Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac), and Photo Élysée, the Musée cantonal pour la photographie / Cantonal Museum for Photography. 

TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN : THE RAILROAD AND TRAIN STATIONS IMAGERY IN THE DNA OF PLATEFORME 10
Announced in Switzerland’s four national languages in the very title, the three opening exhibitions TRAIN ZUG TRENO TREN, presented between June 18 and September 25, 2022 are conceived by each of the museums making up Plateforme 10. They enrich the metaphor of this railroad story by paying tribute to the site’s original vocation and its close proximity to Lausanne’s main train station, a stop along the mythic Venice Simplon Orient Express. 
Favoring and encouraging a crossover of views, the three shows reject any literal or strictly chronological approach. They are transdisciplinary as well and prefer to address their subject throughout, symbolizing in a subtle mix of versality and the force of identity, the birth and development of this unique platform, Lausanne’s new arts neighborhood. 
MCBA presents The imagery of trains and with over 60 masterpieces by a range of artists, from Giorgio de Chirico and Edward Hopper to Paul Delvaux and Leonor Fini, the show smotthly whisks us off on a railroad epic. The exhibition Crossing Lines presented at Photo Elysée explores new approaches over more than a cenury and a half of railroad stories. Mudac, with the exhibition Let’s meet at the station, focuses on the idea of meeting and the roman de gare (the pulp novel but literally in France the “train station novel”) and places the individual at the center of its show.


THE ARTS DISTRICT, WHERE CULTURE, LEISURE ACTIVITIES, AND A PLEASANT STROLL COME TOGETHER
The culmination of a major ten-year political undertaking on a national scale, Plateforme 10 and its two museum buildings will be celebrating their opening with a long list of events, shows, and activities. The platform will regularly host a festive cultural program open to all. By turns offbeat and dreamlike, programing will mix dance, theater, contemporary cirucs, performance art, event sound artworks.