Olympic Museum in Lausanne 1st Swiss museum to join Google Art Project

April 3, 2012 by
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has provided the Google Art Project with 104 artworks by 33 artists, from its collection. The museum is one of 155 worldwide to share part of their collection online and it is the first in Switzerland to do so. Art Project now includes Hans Erni’s 1983 “Basketball” [...]

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Olympic Museum to close for 20 months: entry free before closing

December 1, 2011 by
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, one of the region’s most popular tourist attractions, will close 30 January for 20 months for major renovations. Entrance to the museum, which has 200,000 thousand visitors a year, is free from 1 December to 29 January. During the renovations a CGN Lake Geneva boat docked in [...]

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Olympic Museum would close during CHF50m makeover (update)

November 2, 2010 by

Restaurant area and walks would see great improvements, a boon for local residents as well as visitors Update 3 November  Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – French-speaking Switzerland’s most popular museum, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, is asking the city for planning permission to allow the 17-year-old institution to embark on a total makeover. The IOC (International [...]

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