Museums · Lausanne
Olympic Museum
Olympisches Museum
museum collection in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
- TypeMuseums
- WhereLausanne, Switzerland
- AddressQuai d'Ouchy 1, 1006 Lausanne
Photo: Sailko · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
About
About Olympic Museum
The Olympic Museum (French: Musée olympique) in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games memorabilia in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist site draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.
The Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park (sculpture garden between the museum and Lake Léman) are located at Ouchy, south of Lausanne. The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are located at Vidy, to the west of Ouchy.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photos: Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Ank Kumar (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.
Good to know
- Architect
- Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
- Visitors a year
- 160,000
- Official website
- olympic.org
In Lausanne
More to see here
Olympic Museum
1 / 7