Driven by changing ideology and financial concerns, museum communications have undergone a cultural shift in recent decades toward a more interactive model of communication implicating museum employees as well as museum audiences. Translation is an important tool in audience engagement and shaping museum exhibition communications but has been relatively little studied until recently. This thesis undertakes some of the groundwork of describing translation practices in French-speaking Switzerland through a survey of 23 museum employees from 19 art museums across French-speaking Switzerland. Among other findings, individual freelance translators are identified as the majority of translators of exhibition materials within the sample. Results also touch upon how the particularity of Swiss language policy affects practices in the museum in monolingual and bilingual cantons. Language policy at the museum level is also discussed as a potential boundary practice for bringing museums closer to best practices in museum translation.