Museums and art galleries

The museum is the regional museum for the Thur and Neckar valleys.  

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”

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”

The hall (Kunsthalle) presents contemporary art.