Artist's rendering of new museum (image: Canton Vaud)

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne will have a new Beaux Arts (fine arts) museum, to be housed in the CFF engine house, next to the main train station. The building itself has nearly 9,000m2 of space and sits on a plot that is some 24,000m2. The museum is expected to open in 2014. The site was selected from 11 under consideration after voters in 2007 derailed a sleek modern lakefront project.

Bernard Fibicher, the museum’s director since June 2007, intends to put the accent on a museum that will be more easily accessible, physically but also in terms of the way works are presented, than the current home in the Place de Rumine

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