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The Olympic Museum is located next to the Olympic Park in Lausanne, Switzerland International Olympic Committee Headquarters . Like the International Olympic Committee headquarters, the museum consists of Ioc member Mexican architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez and Swiss architect Pierre Caen co-designed and co-presided over the construction.

On June 23, 1993, the Olympic Museum was completed and a grand opening ceremony was held, and Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, cut the color for the museum.

Chinese name: Olympic Museum
Foreign name: Olympic Museum
Geographical position: Inside the Olympic Park on Lake Ushi in Lausanne, Switzerland
class: history
Opening hours: 9-18:00
Ticket price: 15 Swiss Francs

Ground point: Switzerland Lausanne
Time of completion: 23 June 1993
Collection excellence: A model of Mount Olympia and a commemorative gold coin for the first modern Olympic Games
Opening date: June 23, 1990
Suggested play time: 2 hours
Official website: http://www.olympic.org/museum

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Olympic Museum

The museum is a white building with clean lines. The front is composed of two layers of white marble veneer wall, in front, standing two rows of a total of 8 marble columns, they come from the Greek island of Thasos, is a gift from the Greek government, is said to be the world's whitest marble with the least texture. This piece of pure white, symbolizing peace and "Feierpele" sportsmanship. Two of the eight columns are engraved with the names of the years and host cities of the previous Olympic and Winter Games. One is engraved with the names of the presidents of the International Olympic Committee.

In June 1993, the six cities bidding for the 2000 Olympic Games were allowed to hold a temporary exhibition in the museum, and China displayed a 2,200-year-old Qin Dynasty unearthed in 1974 Terra-cotta Warriors .

On March 7, 2024, the International Olympic Committee announced that after two years of renovation, the new Olympic Museum official website was officially launched. ^[1]

Building purpose

Olympic Museum

The purpose of building the museum is to use Olympic spirit Educate people so that the Olympic spirit can be passed on from generation to generation.

The Olympic Museum is affiliated with International Olympic Committee , located in Switzerland Inside the Olympic Park on the shores of Lake Ushi in Lausanne. It opened on 23 June 1993. The main responsibility is to be responsible for the collection, protection and exhibition of Olympic cultural relics and archives, and to carry out the Olympic Games study , publicize Olympic purpose Use the Olympic spirit for social education and for international Olympic family And public service, is by far the world's most complete and most complete collection eminence , the most dynamic Sports museum .

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Olympic Museum

The Olympic Museum is located in the district of Uchi Geneva By the lake, covering a wide area, the Olympic fire is lit in front of the museum square all the year round, and there are many statues of different sports shapes dotted, showing the strength and beauty of sports competition. The Olympic Museum is home to many competition documentaries and Computer multimedia Show the evolution and history of the Olympic movement, the introduction of outstanding athletes, such as Muhammad Ali , Carl Lewis, etc., as well as various countries mascot The design of previous MEDALS, the torch display of the torch relay and so on. Here we provide a portable voice explanation system, including Chinese and other languages, while watching the exhibition, you can learn more about the many interesting historical reasons of these exhibits by voice explanation.

Site selection

Olympic Museum

The Olympic Museum was built and preserved for thousands of years Olympic movement The precious material and spiritual wealth left to mankind, so that it can play an educational role, has always been a dream of Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement. In 1915, when the IOC moved to Lausanne, the first temporary museum was announced, and it followed International Olympic Committee Headquarters Multiple migrations. Coubertin After his death, the Olympic movement experienced a long period of frustration, and the Olympic Museum never found a permanent place, and by the 1960s, the museum was rather dilapidated and half-closed. The artifacts collected by the International Olympic Committee over the years have failed to work as Mr. Coubertin dreamed. Rakinen, the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee, said helplessly: "I hope she will do something in the future, she needs time and financial support."

After Samaranch was elected president of the International Olympic Committee in 1980, he successfully solved the problem of site selection and funding, and appointed veteran museologist Monreal as business director and president of the Olympic Foundation to ensure the operation of the museum.

In 1988, the Olympic Museum broke ground and was opened on 23 June 1993 as part of the celebration of the centenary of the Olympic Games. M. de Coubertin's dream came true at last. The Olympic Museum attracts tourists from all over the world with its unique charm, and the audience reaches about 200,000 people every year European Museum Prize He won the award again in 1997.

Construction funds

Samaranch personally raised funds for the construction, and he included some of the world's most famous companies in the list of fund-raising targets. As an incentive, the names of these companies will be engraved in gold on a granite "Sponsors Memorial Wall" when the new pavilion is completed. Coca-Cola Company , Adidas Sportswear companies and Philips Electronics are among the most active sponsors. The final amount raised was more than double the $20 million originally envisaged. The International Olympic Committee also provided more than $20 million.

China's first Olympics

Xiamen Olympic Museum is China's first Olympic museum approved by the International Olympic Committee and the Chinese Olympic Committee International Union of Olympic Museums One of the 12 members is an independent international non-profit public welfare organization. Museum by Ioc member Mr. Wu Jingguo, president of the International Boxing Federation and world famous architectural expert, has been planning, designing, creating and acting as curator for many years. The museum has a rich collection of Olymphic-related cultural relics, aiming to pass on the Olympic culture and promote the Olympic spirit, so that more people can understand, feel and share the history and glory of the Olympic Games.

The museum is an open structure, the main building is divided into two floors, the design is inherited Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland The concept of... The hall on the first floor is a public area, equipped with a multimedia lecture hall, a VIP meeting room, a coffee lounge and a special souvenir shop in China that can handle the theme of international Olympics and previous Olympic Games; In the center of the hall is a Yangtze River jasper stone weighing 80 tons; The second floor is composed of a preface hall and four exhibition halls. Most of the exhibits are Olympic-related cultural relics and souvenirs collected by Mr. Wu Jingguo during his 20 years as an IOC member, including Olympic torches, MEDALS, stamps, badges, commemorative coins and mascots, totaling more than 2,000 pieces.

The main function of the museum is to promote Olympic culture and display Olympic history and treasures to the public, so that the public can learn more about the Olympic information and knowledge, and get closer to the Olympic Games. Experience the healthy life philosophy of "faster, higher, stronger" that enables people to surpass themselves and work hard, and the Olympic spirit concept that focuses on participation, justice and peace.

Opening ceremony

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On June 23, 1990, the International Olympic Committee held a grand opening ceremony for the new Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ceremony was attended by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, King Carlos and Queen of Spain and other dignitaries, as well as nearly 2,000 IOC members and others International sports organization The officials of...

After the ceremony, Samaranch accompanied King Carlos and other dignitaries to visit the museum. Samaranch And King Carlos first entered the Chinese cultural relics exhibition room. King Carlos is in A golden robe of jade He stayed for a long time in front of the phoenix crown, looked very carefully, and asked very carefully. He says these relics fully embody China's ancient culture civilized .

The museum displays precious souvenirs related to the Olympic Games collected by the International Olympic Committee over the past decades, such as a total of 27 torches used for every summer and Winter Olympic Games since 1936 Olympic Games The gold medal for Lewis in 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games The running shoes he wore to win the gold medal in the 200 meters. Three on the second floor Large screen TV Visitors can enjoy the style of sports celebrities. Visitors can also learn about the Olympic movement and its history through dozens of computers. In the Summer Games exhibition room, people can see the photos of 67 countries' elite athletes, including China's Xu Yanmei and Fu Mingxia.

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In addition to the many exhibits in the Olympic Museum, one of the walls of the hall is made of blocks of marble, which are engraved on the marble

Different names, the museum also has a library and audio-visual room, so that visitors can have a deeper understanding of the Olympic sacred sports competition. For visitors, through many videos and multimedia records of the competition at the time, the style of each Olympic Games, the joy and sorrow of the athletes, the success and failure, and the applause of countless audiences, let the visitors seem to experience it, it seems to make people excited and moved. The museum is white unit The lines are simple and bright.

Olympic Museum

On the afternoon of June 23, 1993, the world women's skating champion German girl Werther lit the torch basin, the Olympic torch will never be extinguished from now on, and the museum is surrounded by the Olympic Garden. Rodin , Burdell , Portero And other masters of sports sculpture works stand in it. The museum has 5 floors with a total construction area of 11,000 square meters. In keeping with Lausanne's idyllic scenery, the above-ground building has only 2 floors, with the remaining 3 floors underground. Entering the exhibition hall of 300 square meters, the first thing you see is a white "donor memorial wall." The museum cost $65 million to build, 70 percent of which came from donations. The names of more than 40 companies and some IOC member countries are inscribed on it, among them Flag of the People's Republic of China The gold pattern of the Chinese Olympic Committee and the gold words.

It is the largest museum in the world that records the history of the Olympic movement and the most complete collection of Olympic materials in the world. The museum displays a model of Mount Olympia, the site of the first ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC, to the first Modern Olympic Games Commemorative gold coins, from Coubertin's life photos and writings, to the torches used in the Olympic Games after 1936, and the Ancient Greek Games Relic , collected by the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Games Related souvenirs, modern high-tech sports equipment, etc. Visitors can enjoy countless wonderful "moments" in Olympic history from the three "TV walls". The underground part of the museum is the Olympic Studies Center, which has a large number of books, audio and video materials and photographs. Among them are photos of Chinese divers Xu Yanmei and Fu Mingxia.

Cultural relics in collection

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Olympic Museum

If you are interested in sport, you must visit the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, which is the world's largest information center for the Olympic Games, through the art, documents, films and souvenir From ancient Greece to various exhibitions, sports, art and Olympic culture are organically combined. The exhibition consists of 5 parts:

1. The history of the Ancient Olympics . There are over a hundred pieces from Greece , Roman , Austria and Hungary The porcelain, bronzes, marble sculptures and other cultural relics borrowed, copied and donated by national museums and private collectors are sports works of art deposited in the long history of the Olympic immortality, vividly demonstrating the origin, rise and fall of the ancient Olympic movement.

2. History of the Modern Olympics. The cultural relics donated by famous athletes, various relics generated by the Olympic movement and modern audio-visual technology are combined to show the true history from 1896 to the present Summer Olympic Games And since 1924 Winter Olympic Games ; Profile of past IOC presidents; National or regional Olympic Committees and individual international sports tissue A brief description of By objectively representing the activities of the three pillars of the Olympic movement, the Olympic purpose is propagated, the Olympic spirit is advocated, and the influence of the Olympic Movement on the progress and development of the world is expanded.

3. Coubertin Solo exhibition. There are more than 100 relics, archival materials and letters of Coubertin.

4. Olympic stamp And commemorative coin exhibition. The collection contains more than twelve thousand Olympic stamps and six hundred Olympic commemorative coins from 137 countries, all of which Samaranch donated. The exhibition hall also introduces the production process of commemorative coins, displays its manufacturing tools, and displays the Olympic logo and propaganda pictures.

5. Temporary exhibition hall. This exhibition hall always gives people new ideas through the change of content, especially in the tourism off-season utilization rate is high. As long as the artistic creation related to sports, Olympic movement and culture can be exhibited here.

After the Olympic Museum was officially built, not only the exhibition area expanded, but also the exhibition content was greatly enriched. It contains more than 7,000 hours of video and film materials, 200,000 pictures and 15,000 books, which are the most valuable historical materials in the world. It's still on display in the museum.

There are precious souvenirs related to the Olympic Games since the 19th century, such as paintings, carved artworks, sports pattern coins minted around the world, sports stamps issued by various countries, torches used in the summer and Winter Olympic Games since 1936, and representative Olympic Games Gold medal , Lewis in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics The running shoes you wore to win the 200 meters and so on.

On the second floor of the museum, the grand scenes of previous Olympic Games are projected on the semi-circular screen, and visitors can enjoy the style of sports celebrities. Dozens of small computers are set up in front of the Summer and Winter Olympic halls, and visitors can find all the images and figures about the Olympic Games from the database. After entering the hall of the museum, there is a national monument donated by the museum, and the five-star red flag of the People's Republic of China immediately comes into view. Entering the exhibition hall, there is a special computer system that can view 80 hours of video footage of classic Olympic moments from past winter and summer Games. The system was launched in 2003 to celebrate its 10th anniversary and was the first imaging system in the world to provide similar data queries.

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Opening hours: 9:00-18:00 every day, closed on Mondays from October 1 to April 30.

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