The Collection
Permanent presentation
“Come and see here what you won’t see elsewhere!” is the slogan for the permanent exhibition, laid out chronologically over two floors to showcase treasures from Vaud’s art collections, with some three hundred works dating from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Some rooms focus on a single artist well represented in the museum’s historical collection, such as Louis Ducros, Charles Gleyre, Félix Vallotton, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, and Louis Soutter, while others showcase major trends in post-World War Two acquisitions, such as drawings and paintings of the second Paris School, geometric abstraction, neo-Fauvism, and new media such as video and installation art.
It is planned that works on display will gradually be rotated over the years.
Credits and image caption:
François Bocion, «Bocion et sa famille à la pêche (Bocion and His Family Out Fishing)», 1877. Oil on wood, 32 x 48.5 cm. Acquisition, 1939 © MCBA
François Bocion, «Bocion et sa famille à la pêche (Bocion and His Family Out Fishing)», 1877. Oil on wood, 32 x 48.5 cm. Acquisition, 1939 © MCBA
Gallery
Tour app
The app supports you in discovering the MCBA art’s collection
- Artworks’ commentaries (text and audio versions)
- Artists’ and specialists’ interviews
- Additional pictures allow a better understanding of a selection of 40 exhibited artworks
Available free of charge in FR / EN / DE
