The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum presents, collects and documents the cultural-historical heritage of the Canton of Lucerne and Central Switzerland (die Innerschweiz). About 3 000 objects cover the history of the arsenal (das alte Zeughaus), the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the Roman period, the city and canton of Lucerne, Middle Ages and archaeology, the saints and their worship, … Read more » “Historical Museum Lucerne”
The theme of the panorama of 112 by 10 meters is the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the defeat of the French Army and the surrender to the neutral Swiss Army when the Bourbaki Army had crossed the border at Les Verrières (canton Neuchâtel) in February 1871. The architect Jacques Elysee Goss designed the building for … Read more » “Bourbaki Panorama”
The museum is located in the composer’s former place of residence in Lucerne. From 1866 to 1872, Wagner leased the manor in Tribschen on the shore of Lake Lucerne. The city of Lucerne purchased the manor and its extensive park to make it accessible to the general public and founded the museum. The museum shows … Read more » “Richard Wagner Museum”
The Alpineum, built in neo-classical cupola style (1885), is directly opposite the Lion Monument. Gigantic diorama pictures with configurated foreground and astonishing effect of depth display Switzerland’s most beautiful mountain regions in three-dimensional representation: Pilatus, Rigi, Jungfrau, Monte Rosa, Gornergrat, Breithorn, Matterhorn and the ascent to Mont Blanc. An artistic masterpiece created a hundred years … Read more » “Alpineum”