Tintin in Lausanne

If you can get to Lausanne this weekend, you are in for a treat.

Lausanne’s Festival de la Cité honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hergé, the Belgian comic book writer, while offering a wide selection of free concerts and shows.


Le Festival de la Cité returns to the Vaud capital this summer with 200 free artistic events over nine days. Starting July 6 the festival’s attractions range from concerts and theatre to contemporary dance and street arts. To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hergé, the late Belgian creator of Tintin comic books, organizers are presenting a special two-day Tintin festival on July 7-8.


Twelve original sketches of Tintin will be on display in Lausanne’s museum of history (musée historique de Lausanne). A dozen cars of the type that appear in Hergé’s works will be on display at Place de la Riponne, while the Atlantic movie theatre will screen animated films featuring several of Tintin’s adventures, such as “The Mystery of the Golden Fleece” and “The Crab with the Golden Claws.”

Hopefully in the run up to the Tintin Movie we will see a lot of these exhibitions touring around the world so we can all see them.