Documentation

Library

The Fondation Toms Pauli library, specialised in the field of ancient, modern and comtemporary tapestry art, is part of the library network of French-speaking Switzerland. Its catalogue, accessible online at Renouvaud, groups together more than 4,300 references including monographies, exhibition catalogues, technical works, and periodicals.

This documentation, embracing several centuries of research and textile creation in Switzerland and across the world (32 languages are listed), can be consulted in the documentation room of Bibliothèque du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Plateforme 10

Information and  opening hours: : Library - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Collection of documents: works presented at the Lausanne Biennials

In 2012, Fondation Toms Pauli and Archives de la Ville de Lausanne (AVL) jointly created a data base listing and illustrating 911 works presented between 1962 and 1992 at the Lausanne Tapestry Biennials. Known as CITAM, the acronym for Centre international de la tapisserie ancienne et moderne, this collection of documents provides professionals and the public at large with a research tool and a repository of memory for examining the history and international development of the New Tapestry movement in the second half of the 20th century.

The information contained in the collection is drawn from catalogues of the Biennials published by CITAM. New information and visual documents have been added to the original sources. The data have been updated and completed and now include the 16th event in 1995.

The CITAM collection of documents can be consulted on the AVL description and dissemination platform: https://vidy-archives.lausanne.ch/doc-g2.

Archives

The archives of CITAM, that played host to the Tapestry Biennials from 1962 to 1995, are conserved at two Lausanne institutions: administrative documents at Archives de la Ville de Lausanne and artists’ application files at Fondation Toms Pauli. They are available to researchers on site, by appointment.

The CITAM administrative archives (an inventory is available): https://vidy-archives.lausanne.ch/pri-g2 can be consulted in the AVL reading room. Online appointments: Accès au public et rendez-vous – Ville de Lausanne

The CITAM artists’ files, managed by Fondation Toms Pauli, can be consulted in the documentation room of Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne.

Email appointments: info@toms-pauli.ch