The Palais de Rumine is a late 19th-century building in Florentine

Renaissance style Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece, ancient Greek and ...

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

History

On his death, Gabriel de Rumine, son of Russian nobility, left the city of Lausanne 1.5 million

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to erect a building for the use of the public. Building began in 1892 according to the design of the

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nais architect

Gaspard André Gaspard André (16 March 1840 in Lyon - 12 February 1896 in Cannes) was a French architect, best known as the designer of the Theater of the Place des Célestins, the Fountain of the Place des Jacobins and the Grand Temple de Lyon in Lyon, the ci ...

. The Palais was inaugurated on 3 November 1902, although building work continued until 1904. On 24 July 1923, the

Treaty of Lausanne The Treaty of Lausanne (french: Traité de Lausanne) was a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially settled the conflic ...

was signed in Palais de Rumine. It housed facilities such as the library of the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

, and scientific and artistic collections belonging to the Canton of

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. In the 1980s, the university moved to its current location by

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due to lack of space, and the Palais was restructured.

Current use

The building currently hosts one of the three sites of the

Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne The Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (''Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne'', BCU) was founded in the 16th century and became one of the most important public libraries in Switzerland. History The University of ...

. Additionally, it contains the following museums: * ''Musée cantonal des beaux-arts'' (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts) * ''Musée cantonal d'archéologie et d'histoire'' (Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History) * ''Musée monétaire cantonal'' (Cantonal Museum of Money) * ''Musée cantonal de géologie'' (Cantonal Museum of Geology) * ''

Musée cantonal de zoologie The Cantonal Museum of Zoology (french: Musée cantonal de zoologie) is a zoology museum in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland. History The museums history dates from 1779, when the "objects" of natural history in the Académie de L ...

'' (Cantonal Museum of Zoology)

Gallery

File:Palais de Rumine, cortile e scalinata 09.JPG, The main hall File:Palais_de_Rumine_(Lausanne)-01.JPG, The fountain File:Palais de Rumine (Lausanne)-11.JPG, Main entrance of the Palais de Rumine, on the Place de la Riponne File:LausannePano.jpg, Panorama, showing

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, the ''Ancienne Académie'', and the Palais de Rumine File:Palais de Rumine (Lausanne)-10.JPG, Statue File:Picswiss VD-46-08.jpg, Turret

Notes and references

* Édouard Aynard
''L'œuvre de Gaspard André''
Lyon : A. Storck, 1898. p. 161- 168. * *

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{{Portal bar, Switzerland Museums in Lausanne Palaces in Switzerland Libraries in Switzerland Library buildings completed in 1904

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