Would you like to relive great Olympic moments? Feel the pulse of the champions? Discover the creative flair of the host cities?
The world of the Games with its many facets is now open up to you at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. If you haven’t visited the museum since it was closed for renovations just over a year ago, then now is the time to see it. With a major new temporary exhibition opening on 19th February 2015, entitled The Olympic Games: Behind the Screen, visitors now have the unique opportunity to find out what goes on behind the scenes, when images from the Olympic Games are broadcast all around the world.
New temporary exhibition, The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen
19.02.2015 – 26.01.2016
Every edition of the Olympic Games has its innovations and unique aesthetic. The temporary exhibitions at the Museum are designed to show the Games in all their diversity – and the latest exhibition, The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen, is no exception.
How do you build a show, which can stir billions of people as one? How do you broadcast images of the Games to the four corners of the earth? What will future broadcasts of the Games look like?
Neck-and-neck sprints, perfect dives, gravity-defying jump, tears of disappointment and thrills at receiving a medal…every moment of the Olympic Games is followed by viewers all over the world, who share in the athletes’ achievements and live to the rhythm of their emotions. This experience is only made possible by broadcasting the images and sounds of the competitions around the globe.
The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen highlights the magic of live coverage, as the limits of human and technical performance come together to transform the whole planet into a single giant stadium. It provides a tribute to the creativity of broadcasting, and immerses the visitor in the history of radio and television productions, as well as looking at how the Games will be experienced in the future.
Significantly for modern consumers of high techology devices, it shows how images and sounds are broadcast from the field of play of the competitions to the screens of televisions and tablets - an exceptional opportunity to witness the creation of that emotion which is part of the Games experience.
Click here to view the full program of events, scheduled to take place throughou the course of exhibition. These include a special weekend of activites on 30 and 31 May, 2015, using innovative interactive devices such as the Criodrôme where visitors will be able to produce light by shouting, and the Cinécycle where images can be produced by pedal power. Visitors will also have the opportunity to make their own animated film, and commentate over archived images.
What else?
The Museum has 3000 m2 of exhibition space, over 1500 exhibits, and 150 screens. From The Olympic Park with its sports installations and sculptures, to the TOM Café and its menus inspired by the cuisine of cities who have hosted the Games, you cannot fail to be impressed! The view of the lake from the Museum is already enough to take your breath away.
In addition to The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen, there are currently two other temporary exhibitions being staged at the museum: Sarajevo 1984 – The Slav Soul, and "Super 8" - Wrestling Is A Sport for Girls Too. There are also regular weekend events focusing on a particular aspect of Sport – including one on the role of women in sport scheduled for the weekend of 7 and 8 March 2015. For more information about these and other events being held at The Olympic Museum, visit: http://www.olympic.org/museum/visit/calendar
The Olympic Museum
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Opening hours
01.05-14.10: every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
15.10-30.04: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed on Mondays (except Easter Monday and for special events). Closed on 25 December and 1 January.
The Olympic Games: Behind The Screen
19.02.2015 – 26.01.2016
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