Bookshop-store

A rich assortment of products inspired by the MCBA collection

Photo: Jonas Hänggi

Opening hours

Tuesday-Wednesday10:00 - 18:00
Thursday10:00 - 20:00
Friday-Sunday10:00 - 18:00
MondayClosed

The MCBA Bookshop-Store is accessible without an entrance ticket to the museum.

Contact: +41 21 318 44 60
shop.mcba@plateforme10.ch

Special hours

1.08.202510:00 - 18:00
22.09.2025Closed
24.12.202510:00 - 17:00
25.12.2025Closed

All special hours

26.12.202510:00 - 18:00
31.12.202510:00 - 17:00
1.01.2026Closed

A specialized shop just a very short walk from the train station – and open Sundays. Fine publications, great gift ideas, and exclusive products…

Along with the catalogues of current and past shows, MCBA staff has made a selection of titles that should interest both the neophyte and the knowledgeable professional. Our children’s section features a choice of artbooks and games to develop kids’ creativity. Postcards, reproductions, the art of entertaining, textiles, jewelry, leather goods, stationary, and decorative objects… a rich assortment of products inspired by the MCBA collection, the fine arts, and PLATEFORME 10.
Armchairs and low tables make book-browsing a must.

Orders: shop.mcba@plateforme10.ch

Shipping costs for Switzerland:
Publications (Espace Projet, Espace Focus, Jardin d’Hiver): CHF 2.-
Catalogues, books: CHF 7.-
Posters: CHF 14.-

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MCBA exclusive products

Babi Badalov tote bag

Babi Badalov, Your Right is My Left / Your Left is My Right tote bag, 2024

Reproduction of a detail from the mural artwork created for the Babi Badalov. Xenopoetri exhibition

Ökotex cotton (340 g/m²)
38 x 42 x 10 cm
CHF 20.-

The artist, find out more

Puzzle Eugène Burnand

Puzzle Eugène Burnand Taureau dans les Alpes (Bull in the Alps)

500 pieces / 46 x 32,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more

Puzzle Ernest Biéler

Puzzle Ernest Biéler L’Eau mystérieuse (The Mysterious Water)

500 pieces / 60 x 27,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more.

Puzzle Félix Vallotton

Puzzle Félix Vallotton La paresse (Idleness)

500 pieces / 46 x 32,5 cm

CHF 25.-

The artwork, find out more

Creation kit

Creation kit, from 6 years old

To experiment artistic techniques through creation.

CHF 9,50

Publications

Jardin d’Hiver #3. DECORAMA

Jardin d’Hiver #3. DECORAMA, Elise Lammer (ed.), with contributions by Estelle Hoy and Denis Pernet, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2025, Coll. Jardin d’Hiver, n°3, FR./ENG

CHF 5.–

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Alain Huck. Postanimal Beauty

Alain Huck. Postanimal Beauty, co-published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and art&fiction publications, Lausanne, 2025, 148 pp.

Insert: Alain Huck. Respirer une fois sur deux, with contributions by Sophie Ballmer, Christian Cuénoud, Celia Houdart, Robert Ireland, Julie Lang, David Lemaire, Alessandro Mercuri, Federico Nicolao, Guillaume Pilet, Christophe Rey, Carina Roth, Laurence Schmidlin, Nicole Schweizer, Katia Schwerzmann, Jacques Sprunger, and Stéphane Zaech, co-published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and art&fiction publications, Lausanne, 2025, 44 pp.

CHF 48.- (the insert is available for CHF 8.- during the exhibition)

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Sophie Thun. Wet Rooms

Pierre-Henri Foulon (ed.), Sophie Thun. Wet Rooms, with a text by Hélène Giannecchini. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2025, Coll. Espace Projet, no. 6, fr/en

CHF 8.-

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Alice Pauli: Galeriste, collectionneuse, mécène

Camille Lévêque-Claudet with Magali Junet, Alice Pauli: Galeriste, collectionneuse, mécène, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, Fage Editions, 2025, 200 p.

CHF 32.-

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Thalassa! Thalassa! L’imaginaire de la mer

Danielle Chaperon and Catherine Lepdor, Octopus Editions, 2024, fr., 208 p., 187 ill. ISBN: 978-2-900314-48-7

CHF 29.-

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Uriel Orlow. Forest Times

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), Uriel Orlow. Forest Times, with contributions by Lucia Pietroiusti and Ana Teixeira Pinto fr./angl., 222p., co-edition K. Verlag, Berlin, and MCBA, Lausanne, 2024.

CHF 30.-

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André Tommasini. Une vie à sculpter

Pierre-Henri Foulon (ed.), with texts by Eleonora Del Duca, Lorena Ehrbar and Pierre-Henri Foulon, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2024, Coll. Espace Focus, no. 12, fr., 48 p., 28 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu

Pierre-Henri Foulon, Juri Steiner (eds.), Surrealism. Le Grand Jeu, with texts by Paolo Baggi, Gorge Bataille, Boris Bergmann, Pierre-Henri Foulon, Susan Laxton and Juri Steiner, fr., 156 p., 63 ill. co-published by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and Scheidegger&Spiess, Zurich, 2024.
ISBN: 978-3-03942-192-3

CHF 29.-

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Gina Proenza

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), with contributions by Salome Hohl and Sabrina Tarasoff, and an interview with the artist by Nicolas Brulhart fr./eng., 64 p., Coédition MCBA, Lausanne / JRP Editions, Genève, 2024.

CHF 30.-

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Babi Badalov. Xenopoetri

Pierre-Henri Foulon (ed.), with texts by Pierre-Henri Foulon and Julie Abbou, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2024, Coll. Espace Projet, n° 5, fr./en., 52 p., 23 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Immersion. Les origines: 1949 – 1969

Choghakate Kazarian and Camille Lévêque-Claudet (ed.), Immersion. Les origines/The Origins: 1949-1969, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Hazan, 2023, fr./eng., 152 p., 106 ill.

CHF 60.90

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Steinlen. Coups de griffe et patte de velours

Catherine Lepdor, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, n° 11, fr., 48 p., 41 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Groupe CAYC. Buenos Aires – Lausanne

Camille de Alencastro and Elisabeth Jobin, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, no 10, fr., 48 p., 43 ill.

CHF 8.-

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Emily Jacir. We Ate the Wind

Nicole Schweizer (ed.), with a text by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Projet, no 4, fr./en., 40 p., 20 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Jardin d’Hiver #2 Poems of Change

Simon Würsten Marin (ed.), Jardin d’Hiver #2. Poems of Change, with contributions by Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Marie DuPasquier, and Simon Würsten Marin. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Jardin d’Hiver coll., no. 2, fr./en., 32 p., 20 ill.

CHF 5.–

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Silvie Defraoui. Le tremblement des certitudes

Laurence Schmidlin (ed.), Silvie Defraoui. Le tremblement des certitudes, with an essay by Laurence Schmidlin and a preface by Juri Steiner, Copublication by Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne and Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2023, en./fr./ge., 120 p., 76 ill.

CHF 35.-

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Balthus dessinateur

Camille Lévêque-Claudet, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023, Coll. Espace Focus, n° 9, fr., 32 p., 27 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Lubaina Himid

Michael Wellen (ed.), Lubaina Himid, with contributions by Amrita Dhallu, Christine Eyene, Lisa Merrill, Griselda Pollock, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Carol Tulloch, Michael Wellen, and texts by Lubaina Himid
Tate Publishing, London, 2021 (en.) and 2022 (fr.), 192 p., 100 ill.

CHF 35.-

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René Auberjonois – Louis Soutter. Les candeurs premières

Catherine Lepdor, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2022, Espace Focus series, no. 8, fr., 32 p., 27 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Resistance Anew – Culture, Artworks & Democracy

Bernard Fibicher (ed.), with essays by Mieke Bal, Pascal Chabot, Markus Gabriel, Isabelle Graw, Mary Jane Jacob, Plínio Prado, Andrew Ross, Gregory Sholette, Markus Steinweg, and Michel Thévoz. Co-published by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne and JRP Editions, Geneva, 2022, 2 available editions: en./fr., 176 p.

CHF 25.–

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Naissance et vie des formes. Dessins contemporains de la collection

Laurence Schmidlin (éd), édition MCBA, 2022. Coll. Espace Focus, n° 6, fr./eng., 32 p., 54 ill.

CHF 5.-

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Francis Alÿs. As Long as I’m Walking

Nicole Schweizer (ed.) With texts by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Luis Pérez-Oramas, and Judith Rodenbeck, and an introduction by Nicole Schweizer.Co-ed. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts of Lausanne and JRP Editions, Geneva, 2021, fr./en., 160 p., 277 ill.

CHF 50.-

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Aloïse. Le ricochet solaire

Texts by Jacqueline Porret-Forel and Céline Muzelle. Foreword by Pascale Marini, Sarah Lombardi, Catherine Lepdor. 5 Continents Editions, Milan / Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne / Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, 2012, fr., 136 p., 140 ill.

CHF 42.-

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Jean Otth. Travaux/Works, 1964-2013

Nicole Schweizer (dir.), with essays by Robert Ireland, Agathe Jarczyk, Elisabeth Jobin, Geneviève Loup and Nicole Schweizer. A coedition by the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne & Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2020. fr./en., 256 p., 381 ill.

CHF 39.-

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Gift-vouchers

Treat your friends and family to a cultural present!

The gift vouchers may be used

  • at the Bookshop-store
  • to buy tickets, private guided tours, book a place in a workshop…

Upon purchasing a gift voucher, a wish card is offered: you can choose one of five images from the MCBA collection.

Value: from CHF 10.-
To buy at the Bookshop-store, or online (Ticket-shop vouchers only)

Buy a gift voucher