Missions
On the basis of the "Cantonal law regarding cultural activities", the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA) has the following mission:
1. to acquire, accept on deposit, to conserve and make known to the public
a) collections of works from the fine arts in general;
b) typical examples of the production of artists of Vaudois origin or who
spent much of their career in the canton of Vaud;
2. to organise, either in Switzerland or abroad, temporary or travelling
exhibitions that satisfy the aims defined above;
3. to run a library dedicated to publications on the fine arts;
4. to uphold and invigorate the cultural life in the canton in the domain of the
fine arts.
Therefore the MCBA has the three traditional objectives of all museums: to acquire, preserve, interprete and promote its collections. It operates on these principles for the benefit of all types of public (local inhabitants and tourists, specialists and the curious, young and old, etc.), opening the museum and its local environment up to the important concerns of our times, and assimilating our critical knowledge of the past to the multiplicity of issues that face us today. The museum fully assumes its role in the sphere of cultural and, more specifically, visual formation in a society in which images overwhelmingly represent the major source of information.
