Musée de l'Elysée
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Musée de l'Élysée is a museum on Lausanne
, Switzerland
, entirely devoted to photography
. It is a government supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod in an 18th century mansion. The collection of more than 100,000 photographs includes those of colour pioneer Gabriel Lippmann
right up to contemporary photographers such as Jeff Wall
. The museum offers both collection and temporary exhibitions.
The entire collections of Ella Maillart
and Nicolas Bouvier
have been left to the museum after their deaths.
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, entirely devoted to photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
. It is a government supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod in an 18th century mansion. The collection of more than 100,000 photographs includes those of colour pioneer Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference....
right up to contemporary photographers such as Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall
Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...
. The museum offers both collection and temporary exhibitions.
The entire collections of Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart was a French-speaking Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.- Life :...
and Nicolas Bouvier
Nicolas Bouvier
Nicolas Bouvier was a 20th-century Swiss traveller and writer as well as an iconographer and photographer.-Life:Bouvier was born at Grand-Lancy near Geneva, the youngest of three children...
have been left to the museum after their deaths.