Museum sights in Lucerne
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Natur-Museum
Anyone intrigued by stuffed critters and creepy crawlies shouldn’t miss the hands-on Natur-Museum. Highlights feature a woodland trail with real trees and a mushroom computer (don’t eat the red spotty ones). Keep your peepers open, too, for the fabled Luzerner Drachenstein, which, according to legend, fell from a dragon’s mouth as it was flying over Mt Pilatus. Modern science suggests that the 15th century stone was probably a meteorite.
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Picasso Museum
Don't arrive at the Picasso Museum expecting to find many of the man's works. Although it does include a few ceramics and sketches, this is principally a portrait of the artist as an impish craftsman, lover and father. Nearly 200 photographs by David Douglas Duncan create a captivating picture of the last 17 years of Picasso's life with his family in their Cannes home. It's a uniquely revealing series.
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Verkehrshaus
It mightn’t sound like an exciting way to pass an afternoon, but the interactive Verkehrshaus is actually fascinating. Alongside space rockets, steam locomotives, flying bicycles and dugout canoes are hands-on activities such as flight simulators, broadcasting studios and a shadow orchestra translating movement to music.
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Historisches Museum
The HistorischesMuseum is cleverly organised into a series of attention-grabbing themes, from lust and lasciviousness to government and tourism. Pick up a barcode-reading audio-guide and let yourself be guided through your chosen story in German or English.
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Richard Wagner Museum
Housed in the composer’s former residence in Tribschen, on the lake’s southern shore, the RichardWagnerMuseum harbours historic musical instruments including rarities such as a regal (portable organ). Take bus 6, 7 or 8 from the train station to Wartegg.
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