The museum Olympique of Lausanne (Swiss) was inaugurated the June 23rd 1993. It is located on the heights of the quay of Ouchy at the edge of the Lac Léman. It shelters permanent and temporary exposures around the sport and of the Olympic movement . It is surrounded by an exposing park of many works of art having like topic the Sport.

This one was founded under the impulse of Juan Antonio Samaranch which had set creation at Lausanne of a museum and a center of Olympic study. It is the second museum more visited Suisse.

The Architecte S of the museum were Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Jean-Pierre Cahen for outside, and Miguel Espinet for the interior. The architectural style of the building is of a traditional modernism . Its simple and purified lines are as timeless as possible, but of many symbols the spirit and the origin of the Olympic Games recall.

The museum presents permanent temporary exhibitions and exposures.

Permanent exposures

• Pierre de Coubertin
• Olympic Games of summer
• Winter Olympics
• Philately and Numismatic

Temporary exhibitions

The Olympique museum presented the following temporary exhibitions:

• Exposition Turin 2006
• To the Roots of the Sport
• It was 30 times Athletissima
• It Vincitore, Angelo Titonel
• the Foot Planet is 100 years old - FIFA -1904-2004
• Destination Olympie
• Ottorino Mancioli
• Performance and balance
• In all the directions of the sport
• photographic Exposition
• Témoins
• Ella Maillart sporting
• Poèmes of marble
• the materials of the exploit!
• the setting in scene of the sporting body
• the Americas Cup
• Homo Ludens
• Of sport in mode
• Barrigue and Burki
• the nation Navajo
• To play with the colors
• Igor Mitoraj
• Iker Larrauri
• Of the handlebar to the handle with brush
• For a certain Ideal
• Tour de France
• Sydney 2000 with the Museum
• Art & Sport 2000
• Nag Arnoldi
• the bicycle in all its states

See too

External bond

• Official site