The museums, art galleries and similar organisations are arranged in alphabetical order of their location.
The museum (Gletschergarten) presents ice and glaciers, and many interesting facts about Central Switzerland during the Ice Age. 20 million years of earth’s history: From a subtropical palm beach to the glacier world of the ice age. The Glacier Garden features a beautiful and varied park and gardens with tall trees, a network of paths, and … Read more » “The Glacier Museum”
The collection of the museum (Kunstmuseum) consists primarily of Swiss art from the Renaissance through to the present day. It contains exemplary paintings from the early and high Baroque, by Kaspar Meglinger and Franz Ludwig Raufft as well as a comprehensive series of portraits by 18th century artists such as Johann Melchior Wyrsch, Felix Maria … Read more » “Museum of Art Lucerne”
The collection (Sammlung Rosengart) comprises well over 300 works by 23 different “Modernist” artists. Along with Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, the collection puts a clear emphasis on Classic Modernism, featuring several of its major exponents and exceptional works of the highest artistic quality. The 21 artists featured who helped move art into abstraction include … Read more » “Rosengart Collection”
This room with 90 mirrors was built in 1896 for the Swiss national exhibition in Geneva and has been housed in the glacier garden since 1899. It is modelled on the fairytale Alhambra Palace of Grenada. The walk through the labyrinth gives the visitor a recurring encounter with himself and offers the illusion of the … Read more » “Hall of Mirrors Alhambra”