The Fondation de l’Hermitage, located on Route du Signal 2, on a panoramic hill overlooking Lausanne, Lake Geneva, and the Alps, is housed in a splendid 19th-century villa set in a centuries-old park. The museum was established in 1984 thanks to a major donation from the Bugnion family and has since been presenting two to three international exhibitions every year dedicated to fine arts from the 19th to the 20th century.

The exhibition program includes monographs on artists such as Bonnard, Giacometti, Monet, Hopper, Magritte, and Miró, as well as thematic exhibitions on movements organized within the European context such as American Impressionism, Futurism, Pointillism, Nordic painting, or Spanish Modernism. The exhibitions also feature exceptional loans from public and private collections (Barbier-Mueller, Bührle, Planque, Bonna…).

The foundation has a permanent collection of over 600 works, some of which are displayed during exhibitions or loaned to other institutions. It includes works by artists from Vaud and internationally renowned artists such as Degas, Sisley, Vallotton, Guillaumin, Borgeaud, and other protagonists of modern art and Impressionism.