Collections


  • STATUETTE IN THE FORM OF TAWARET (TOERIS)
    EGYPT
    LOW PERIOD
    SELF-ENAMELLED CLAY

    Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
     

  • MERTSEGER
    EGYPT
    LOW PERIOD
    SELF-ENAMELLED SILICEOUS CLAY (INV. 312)

    Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
     

  • BULLOCKS
    CHINA
    TANG DYNASTY
    GLAZED AND PIGMENTED EARTHENWARE

    Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
     

  • FUNERARY FIGURES OF RIDERS
    CHINA
    TANG DYNASTY
    PAINTED EARTHENWARE

    Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
     

  • BODDHISATTVA GUANYIN
    CHINA
    YUAN OR MING DYNASTY
    BRONZE

    Credit: SALOMON-DE-JONG
     

Jacques-Edouard Berger

 Deposited with the City of Lausanne by the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, the collections of ancient Egyptian and Asian art amassed during his lifetime by Jacques-Edouard Berger, art historian, lecturer, organiser and accompanier of cultural trips, are presented at the mudac by means of exhibitions on a rotational basis. One gallery is dedicated to ancient Egyptian art, while two other rooms present objects from Asia, for the most part Chinese but also Indian, Tibetan and Japanese.

Two experts, an Egyptologist and a specialist in Chinese art, collaborate with the mudac to select objects and derive interesting themes from them, such as Literati Stones and Imaginary Landscapes, The World of Buddhism, Gods and Men in Ancient Egypt and Animals of the Far East. Guided tours are offered once a month on a Sunday.

Exhibitions currently showing: " Small Everyday Pleasures in Ancient Egypt " and " China from Beyond the Grave" 

The database of the collection can be consulted online at the following address: http://musees.lausanne.ch/