Museums, Lucerne

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Over 300 works of paintings, sketches, prints, sculptures and book illustrations of the well known Swiss artist, Hans Erni,express his special relationship to technology and communication. It is located next to the Museum of Transportation. You may find something to buy here as a souvenir. I bought a postcard with his design printed on it.

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Verkehrshaus is the largest technical museum in Switzerland with a wide range of exhibits including hundreds of cars, ancient trains, aircrafts etc. It is at the same time a place, where children may learn, how an old steam-train was working, many of the old machinerier are cut appart and you may take a look inside.
There is also a Planetarium,
I made 5 pictures of the most interesting exhibits in Verkehrsmuseum, just to give you a first overwiew, what to expect.
Verkehrshaus is open for visitors every day of the year :
in winter 10.00a.m. - 05.00p.m.
in summer 10.00a.m. - 06.00p.m.
the entrance-fee for Verkehrshaus + IMAX-theatre is 32 sfr
IMAX-theatre : 1 movie is 16,- sfr / 2 movies for 28,- sfr
The fee for just Verkehrshaus is 24,- sfr

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Haus am Rhyn & Picasso-Museum is another quite interesting building next to the old townhall and the Rathaus-Turm. Even when you are not interested in the Picasso-museum you may still see an interesting entrance-hall opposite of the ticket-box of the museum. That entrance-hall has great columns and walls, painted in ornate renaissance-frescos, you may enter freely and without restrictions there as long as the museum is open for visitore
Picasso-Museum is open daily from 10.00a.m. - 06.00p.m.

It is a small museum, but well worth it! You can view everything in an hour, if in a rush. I was surprised at the collection of black and whites. I did not buy the book that accompanied the collection, as I was planning on seeing the Picasso museum in Paris, but it was closed. I am really kicking myself now!
Their hours are : Apr - Oct, open daily 10 to 6. Nov - Mar, 11 to 5.

Luzern’s Kunstmuseum (Art Museum) is right beside the railway station at Robert-Zünd Strasse 1, with plenty of works from Swiss artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as collections covering modernism and contemporary art.

As its name already says it you'll find a collection related to the development of transportation and communication (navigation, communication, road and rail transport, aviation,...) so as a Planetarium.

My favourite museum in Switerland, the Swiss Transport Museum, is the largest and most popular transport museum in Europe. It is the only museum which shows the development and technical progress of all forms of transport on land, water and in the air, as well as in the fields of communication and the tourist trade.
Numerous large halls are dedicated to objects of railway trains, motor cars, ships, airplanes, space vehicles and communication. The Transport Museum also incorporates a Planetarium, and numerous exhibitions are held in its halls. There is also a balloon which takes you up to 120 meters high and offers an amazing view of the museum, Lake Lucerne, and the beautiful landscape surrounding Lucerne.
There is also an Imax cinema, the only of its kind in Switzerland, with its huge screen that offers an incomparable film experience.

The museum of history (Historisches Museum Luzern).
The old town arsenal is now home to the Museum of History. Collections include sections on cantonal and municipal history, weapons, handicrafts, folk art, religious art, and domestic and social culture.