On September 23, the Musée de la photographie de l’Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, inaugurated a new space devoted to digital culture. For the moment occupying the loft area of the institution, the LabElysée is first of all an experimental venue. A surface of 200 square meters is slated for a similar space in the future building of the Musée de l’Élysée near the Lausanne train station (opening 2021).
Museums around the world increasingly create half-real, half-virtual spaces intended to test, question, and understand digital images such as those that proliferate on the internet and social networks. The Fotomuseum in Winterthur, another major photography museum in Switzerland, opened its digital lab, Situations, in 2015.
