Permanent exhibitions


  • HEAD OF A STATUETTE
    CHINA, MING DYNASTY (1368–1644)
    WHITE PORCELIN
    H: 8 cm, W: 4.7 cm, D: 5.4 cm
    EGYPT, NEW KINGDOM (1650–1085 BC), 18th DYNASTY
    POLYCHROME LIMESTONE
    H: 10 cm, W: 8.5 cm, D: 9.2 cm

    Credit: OLIVIER LAFFELY
     

  • CHIMERA
    CHINA, HAN DYNASTY (206 BC–AD 206)
    POLYCHROME TERRACOTA

    Credit: OLIVIER LAFFELY
     

  • VIEW OF A GALLERY
     

Jacques-Edouard Berger Collection
Small Everyday Pleasures in Ancient Egypt and China

From the pleasures of love to those of finery, from the pleasures of the table to family joys, this is a journey into everyday life in Ancient Egypt and China. An exhibition to explore from 28 March 2009.
In the zone devoted to Egypt, around a hundred varied objects - dating from the earliest period (3100 BC) to the latest (Greco-Roman era) - demonstrate that the pursuit of happiness formed an integral part of this civilisation.

In the galleries dedicated to China, a broad range of minor and major delights of everyday life in imperial China is suggested by around sixty ceramic, bronze, jade, wood, stone and ivory objects dating from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century AD.


  • Monica Guggisberg
    "Figura di Menta", 1998
    blown and cut glass, Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

  • Frantisek Vizner
    "Yellow Plate", 2003
    Cast glass, cut and polished
    Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

  • Matali Crasset
    "Flowershower", 2003
    Blown borosilicate glass, silicon
    Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

  • Giles Bettison
    "Vista NY #182, 2003"
    Murrine blown glass
    Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

  • Jana Sterbak
    "Hard Entry", 2003
    Blown glass
    Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

  • Josepha Gasch-Muche
    "23.01.2006"
    Glass broken pieces glued on wood panel, Collection of mudac, Lausanne

    Credit: Cédric Bregnard, Technichrome
     

Contemporary glass art:
a new vision of the mudac's collection

A new vision of the mudac's collection Seven years after the mudac's inauguration in 2000, and following some meticulous changes within the presentation located on the second floor of the museum, it was time to make way for a new presentation. We invite you to come and discover it. The entire floor will form the setting for this new selection of the most significant sculptures and objects from the mudac's collection, bringing together creations dating from the 1960s to the present day.

These will include: a choice of blown glass pieces due, among others, to Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Max Ernst; a selection of pâte-de-verre works produced by Daum based on designs by Pierre Dmitrienko and Salvador Dalí; and a new section dedicated to contemporary work by Swiss (ECAL, Lausanne) or foreign artists and designers, which proves the topicality of glass as a material for up-to-the-minute creation.

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