Library

Hours and consultation

Tuesday-Friday: 2pm – 6pm

Special closures on Friday 29.03, Thursday 9.05 and Thursday 1.08

Summer closure: 6.08 to 23.08 2024

Winter closure: 24.12.2024 to 10.01.2025

On-site consultation, on request:

Free access:

  • A selection of books about artists represented in the collection, in connection with current exhibitions or about a museum’s life and activities; periodicals about fine arts.

Contact

Bibliothèque du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
Place de la Gare 16
1003 Lausanne
bibliotheque.mcba@plateforme10.ch
+41 21 318 44 50

Art history, artists, museology, the art market, cultural mediation, conservation, private collections…

The MCBA library offers a specialised collection of materials on the visual arts from the 19th century to today. The collection covers painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, video, and new media, with special emphasis on the artists who are part of the museum’s collections, artists from Vaud and the arts in the canton. Some 40,000 items (exhibition and museum catalogues, monographs on artists, specialised periodicals, auction house catalogues) are available for on-site consultation.

The library also conserves the archives of both MCBA and the Association des Amis du musée. It maintains as well the Balthus Archives, which are on long-term loan to the museum, and the library of the Toms Pauli Foundation.

Resources

The complete catalogue of the MCBA's library: search here

Links

MCBA Publications

Visions du déluge

Richly illustrated 128-page catalogue, co-published by Réunion des musées nationaux/Paris, with texts by Rémi Cariel, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Maria Susana Seguin and Sylvie Wuhrmann (fr.)

CHF 46.-

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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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Comment peut-on être (du village d’à côté) persan (martien) ?

Jill Gasparina (ed.) With texts by Jill Gasparina and Olivier Vadrot, and a collection of notes written by the featured artists on the question of scene, landscape, group practices and those of the visual arts economy. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2021. Coll. Jardin d’Hiver, n. 1, fr., 32 p., 1 ill.

CHF 5.–

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