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| Swiss Museum of Transport |
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| The Swiss Museum of Transport is Switzerland's most famous museum and has many attractions to offer for the whole family. Its aim is to to present the past, present and future of transport on land, air and sea such as the essentials of communication. For this puropose the museum has more than 3000 displays dispersed over 20,000 square meters. That's not all, there are special theme presentations and exhibitions, a planetarium and an IMAX cinema projeting wonderful panoramic films. A collection of Hans Arni paintings, sculptures and drawings related to technology are also exposed permanently. |
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| History Museum |
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| The History Museum is organised around various actual themes such as politics, tourism or government and exposes thousands of different objects. Each object has a bar code and with a handy bar code reader device you will be able to load a readable text and learn something about the object displayed. If you are not fond of electronic devices you can just pick up the exhibition catalogue and look up the objects in the booklet. |
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| Address: Pfistergasse 24, 6000 Lucerne - Phone: 041 228 54 24 - Internet: History Museum |
| Rosengart Collection |
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| Angela Rosengart, a highly-educated Swiss woman with a substantial interest in arts, was a friend of the Spanish master Pablo Picasso and collected his works over time. In 1992 she decided to open her collection to the public and that's how the Rosengart Collection Lucerne was born. The ground floor is entirely dedicated to Picasso and its collection is quite impressive. On the first floor you can find masterpieces from other famous artists such as Paul Klee, Miró, Bonnard, Renoir, Monet and many more totalling to an amount of 23 contrasting classic modernist artists with well over 200 works. |
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