Museum/exhibitions

The campus has several exhibition spaces dedicated to the Art/Science dialogue, architecture, the History of Information Technology and scientific instruments.

EPFL also holds a collection of 224 old scientific instruments dating from 1775 to 1960 that can be seen in the Cubotron building of the UNIL.

Sculptures by artists, sometimes gigantic, are also part of the campus’ architecture and history.

Archizoom

Archizoom is an exchange platform for exhibitions and public conferences on architecture.

Musée Bolo

The Musée Bolo preserves many witnesses of the history of Swiss IT, including those designed at EPFL.

Archives de la construction moderne

The Archives de la Construction Moderne is the most important collection of architectural drawings in French-speaking Switzerland for research, teaching and scientific dissemination.

Collection of scientific instruments

EPFL has a collection of scientific instruments dating from 1775 to 1960. Demonstrations and lectures are organized around these objects.

Exposition Les premiers batiments de l'EPFL

The first EPFL buildings

The exhibition “The first EPFL buildings” takes the form of a series of kiosks scattered on the upper terraces of the school’s first buildings, as well as a virtual counterpart composed of Internet pages accessible by QR code.

Montreux Jazz Café Lab and festival archives

The Montreux Jazz Café showcases the Montreux Jazz Festival archives, listed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. EPFL has digitized over 5,000 concerts.

Works of art fixed on campus

19 sculptures by Swiss and international artists are part of the history and architecture of the School