Museums in Lucerne

Museum near the Lion Monument with panoramic relief models and dioramas of Alpine landscapes.

Switzerland's most-visited museum covering 20,000+ sqm on the lakeshore with interactive exhibitions on road, rail, water, and air transport, plus a planetarium and IMAX.

One of the world's few surviving 360-degree panoramic paintings (112 m × 10 m), depicting the 1871 internment of 87,000 French Bourbaki soldiers by the Swiss.

Contemporary art museum in a glass-and-steel KKL extension, presenting rotating exhibitions of contemporary and modern Swiss and international art.

Occupies the lakeside villa at Tribschen where Wagner lived 1866–1872, composing Die Meistersinger, Siegfried, and much of Götterdämmerung.

World-class art museum with the private collection of Angela Rosengart: 200+ works including 125 by Klee and major Picassos, plus Cézanne, Monet, Matisse, Miró, and Chagall.

Geological open-air museum with glacial potholes from the Ice Age, discovered in 1872. Includes a 19th-century mirror maze and observation tower.