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Curtain up on Plateforme 10, Lausanne's New Museum WINTER 2019 - 2020 Editorial « Compete, learn and share ! » – that’s the motto for the Lausanne Youth Olympic Games in 2020. And this win- ter, the whole region will be adopting it. Because every competition – from races on the ski slopes to the hotly contested World Fondue Champion- ships, for instance – is first and fore- 3 most an opportunity for everyone to show the best they can do. Because there’s always something new to learn or discover in our region – the inau- guration of Plateforme 10, Lausanne’s A MOXY AT LAUSANNE new museum complex, for example, CURTAIN UP ON PLATEFORME 10, or the opening of a new designer After New York, San Francisco, London and Berlin, hotel in the city center of Lausanne. LAUSANNE’S NEW MUSEUM COMPLEX this trendy and young hotel chain (a member of And finally, because sharing and hos- the Marriott Group) is coming to the Vaud capital. pitality are not just empty words in the The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (mcb-a) opened its doors to the area. In order to realize it, visitors can public on 5 October 2019. This marked the inauguration of the new arts visit the Montreux Christmas Market or dip a slice of bread into a fondue district where the photography museum (Elysée) and the Museum of pot at the Pintes Ouvertes restaurant Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (Mudac) will join the mcb-a in festival. 2021. Andreas Banholzer This is the largest cultural project in the those of Zao Wou-Ki and Rodin as well as CEO, Vaud Tourism Office Canton of Vaud for many decades: in 2021, renowned Swiss artists such as Paul Klee, (Lake Geneva Region) Plateforme 10 – a stone’s throw from the rail Balthus, Félix Vallotton and Louis Soutter. In station – will bring together three Lausanne addition to museum facilities, Plateforme 10 cultural institutions that previously occu- will be spanned by a walkway that forms part pied their own sites: the Cantonal Museum of a larger project to create a “green” link of Fine Arts (mcb-a), the Musée de l’Elysée, between Lausanne’s eastern and western Representation a photography museum, and the Museum sides. From spring 2021 onwards, visitors in the markets of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts approaching this 250-meter ramp will be (Mudac). The Toms Pauli and Félix Vallot- invited to embark on an educational trail Vaud Tourism Office (Lake Geneva ton Foundations will also be housed on the designed by the Cantonal Botanical Museum Region) and its partners participate 2 site. With an area of 25,000 m , Plateforme and Gardens (MJBC). The route will feature It’s no coincidence that the first Moxy*** hotel in Switzerland will in dozens of promotional activities 10 primarily aims to arouse curios- open in the Flon district at the start of December. The Flon is the throughout the year. Here is a list of ity among the public by offering a hot-spot of Lausanne’s night life, and no visitor should miss its these events : venue for dialogue, discovery and boutiques, bars and restaurants. It is therefore the ideal setting amazement. The new facilities will for this hotel, designed to attract a new generation of travelers – give the institutions better oppor- guests who appreciate design as well as the latest trends and tech- 30 October to 3 November 2019 | tunities to showcase their collec- nologies, but who also want good value for money. The Moxy will Swiss Winter Festival | Beijing tions. The permanent exhibitions offer 113 bedrooms on 4 floors. Since Lausanne is also the Olympic Vaud Tourism Office will have free access. In parallel, capital, the designers have created a sporting ambience. They the museums will also propose have added warmth to the raw materials – concrete and metal – regular temporary exhibits (with with light wood and muted color shades to produce a sense of an entrance fee) that will attract a understated elegance. Each room features a large flatscreen with wide and varied audience. There is streaming TV and high-speed Wi-Fi, free of charge. The reception 25 to 29 November 2019 | no doubt that this site will quickly creates the impression of a living room, with a bar that serves an Sales Calls Tour Summer China | become a must-see for visitors to impressive range of cocktails as the focal point. A small fitness area Shenyang, Chongqing, Changsha, Lausanne as well as for its residents. awaits guests in the basement. Nanjing Plateforme 10 is opening in three moxy-hotels.marriott.com/en Vaud Tourism Office stages, the first of which took place at the start of October 2019. | Following the official inauguration 2 to 5 December 2019 Extravaganza | Montreal, Vancouver, days, the mcb-a has welcomed the MONTREUX CHRISTMAS Los Angeles public since 5 October with a first MARKET TURNS 25 special exhibition, titled “Atlas. A Vaud Tourism Office, Geneva Tourism & Conventions Foundation, Valais Promotions Cartography of Donations”. On For a quarter of a century, the chalets and (LGMR, Lake Geneva Matterhorn Region) display until 12 January 2020, it attractions of this second largest Christmas market presents a mix of recent and older 2 donations on an area of 3,200 m . This urban vegetation and its rich biodiversity, in Switzerland have drawn big crowds. 31 January to 7 February 2020 | exceptional presentation is conceived as a focusing on the key issue of greenery in city From 21 November until STE GCC / Middle East kind of atlas of the institution’s collections, environments. The trail, already known as the 24 December, 172 artisans Lausanne Tourism, Montreux-Vevey currently comprising some 10,000 works. “fourth museum”of Plateforme 10, will be an and retailers will welcome Tourism It establishes a dialogue between differ- outstanding showcase for the MJBC’s activ- 550,000 visitors in a festive ent eras and formal approaches, with works ities. Anyone wishing to know more about setting on the shores of Lake from major contemporary artists ranging the plant world is invited to visit the Botani- Geneva. This year, in addition | from Pierre Soulages and Anselm Kiefer to cal Museum, less than 10 minutes’ walk away. to the 170 chalets extend- 15 to 21 February 2020 STE China | China Giuseppe Penone and Anish Kapoor. On region-du-leman.ch/en/Z11270 ing for nearly a kilometer the mcb-a’s walls, their works mingle with between the Market Square Vaud Tourism Office and the 2M2C Convention Centre, a brightly lit covered News in brief area will add a magic touch At Echallens, the Discover local products The International and protect visitors from 24 to 28 February 2020 | Museum of Wheat and in traditional restaurants Olympic Committee (IOC) bad weather. A must-see: STE South East Asia | Bangkok, Bread focuses on gluten The Pintes Ouvertes festival is going green with its a replica of Moscow’s Red Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore What is gluten? What is will run from 5 to 7 December, new headquarters Square as a reference to Vaud Tourism Office it used for? And why are when over 100 restaurants June saw the inauguration Russia, this year’s guest of people wary of it? This will offer typical menus to of the Olympic House at honour. The event will also exhibition, titled “The truth celebrate the heritage and Lausanne, nestled amid feature a concert of Russian folk music as well as culinary highlights about the gluten case”, values of the region. For greenery just a stone’s throw from the country. And Santa Claus will, of course, appear everyday More news on our Media Corner : answers these questions and CHF 20, guests can savor from the lake. Adults will on his flying sleigh. At the log cabin in the lumberjack village, visi- media.lake-geneva-region.ch others until 22 March. The delicatessen, fondue and appreciate its original and tors can warm themselves up over tea and delicious pizza. Several program is completed by bread accompanied by a ecological architecture. new features are planned for the weekends, including a costumed workshops, panel discussions glass of Chasselas wine. Children will like the outdoor race (Santa’s Run, 8 December) and a sledge event at Les Avants (15 and guided tours for region-du-leman.ch/en/P27215 facilities open to the public: December). Children can ride up to Rochers-de-Naye, located at participants of all ages. wooden modules shaped like 2,042 m, to visit the real Santa Claus, who will welcome them with his maison-ble-pain.com birds, climbing walls, tubular Russian counterpart, Grandfather Frost. slides and water games. region-du-leman.ch/en/P54228 region-du-leman.ch/en/P1141 AN EXHIBITION AT THE ELYSÉE FONDUE IS GOING OUT OF THE MUSEUM FOCUSES ON AMERICAN RESTAURANT IN THE CANTON OF VAUD PHOTOGRAPHER JAN GROOVER Vaud Tourism Office The Swiss national dish can now be sampled in many The first ever retrospective of her work is on show until unexpected settings. Avenue d’Ouchy 60 Case postale 1125 5 January 2020. 1001 Lausanne - Suisse Lausanne’s renowned photography they outline the notions of seriality and museum, which will move into new sequence on which other contempo- Tel. +41(0)21 613 26 26 premises at Plateforme 10 in 2021, rary artists were to focus. In 1978, Jan is staging the first retrospective of Groover set off in a radically new direc- [email protected] the work of Jan Groover (1943-2012) tion as she turned to still life. The exhi- www.lake-geneva-region.ch entitled “Laboratory of Forms “. The bition presents selected archives from museum has held this American artist’s the collection that portray her evolu- personal collection since 2017.
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