Swiss Museum of Transport
The Switzerland ( VHS) Transport in Lucerne is the most versatile transport and communications museum in Europe and the most visited museum in Switzerland. It shows a large collection of locomotives, cars, ships and aircraft, as well as exhibits from the area of communication. Operator of the Museum of Transport is the association of Transport Switzerland. The number of visitors of the museum was in 2013 at 519'381.
- 3.1 Planetarium
- 3.2 movie theater
- 3.3 Hans Erni Museum
- 3.4 Swissarena
History
The founding of the Museum of Transport was due to the desire to create a railway museum in Switzerland. In 1942, the Association of Transport Switzerland was founded with headquarters in Zurich, next to the SBB and PTT, private railways and transport organizations and major companies in the trade, industry and tourism belonged. But in Zurich no suitable site for the proposed museum could be found, the city of Lucerne offered the club a 22,500 m² large area in the Lido, right on Lake Lucerne.
In 1957, construction began. The construction was funded by the federal government and the city and the canton of Lucerne. On 1 July 1959, the Museum of Transport Switzerland was opened; it quickly became the most popular museum in Switzerland. Co-founder and founding director was Alfred Waldis. " No matter how many directors come. Alfred Waldis will always be Mister of Transport. " Wrote the New Lucerne newspaper to his death.
To a wider audience in Germany has become known by the sketch in the Museum of Transport (1976 ) of the Lucerne comedian Emil Steinberger Museum of Transport. 2009, the total number of visitors over 927'000, of which 565,000 museum tickets. In 2013 there were a total of 710'424 entries, of which 519'581 in the museum.
Exhibitions
The museum, where you can also touch many objects and engage interactively, is divided into different areas:
Rail transport
The extensive collection of rail transport provides, inter alia, Swiss rail vehicles, the Gotthard tunnel construction site of 1875 ( currently out of service ), simulators, movies and info stations.
The collection for road shows horse-drawn carriage, bicycles, motorcycles and cars and simulators for road safety. The latest attraction is the car theater, in which get presented on automobiles from all sectors of automobile history the audience in a kind of TV show a wide range. The selected automobiles are then retrieved and presented with a huge car lift from the rack.
Aerospace
In the exhibition Aerospace more than 30 aircraft and flying machines can be admired, including the constructed by the brothers Henri and Armand Dufaux biplane Dufaux 4, the oldest Swiss aircraft. Other exhibits include a Blériot XI per -b, F.VIIa Fokker, Lockheed Orion, Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, Douglas DC -3, a helicopter Alouette III, Bertrand Piccard Breitling Orbiter 2 and Claude Nicollier 1992 with the Space Shuttle flight STS -46 exposed to research satellite EURECA. In addition, hundreds of original objects of flying forks on parachutes to cut engine are shown, supplemented with dioramas, experiments and flight simulators. Aerospace Exhibition Cosmorama.
Shipping, cable cars and Tourism
Starting at the dugout the history of shipping in the Switzerland is told from the cut 1:1 model of the steam plant of a paddle steamer on original ships to diverse models. This is also where the multimedia show Nautirama. In the cable car exhibition, the first cable car of the Wetterhorn Lift can be seen.
Communication
It will be shown the basics of communication and communication technologies. Among other things, you will find a radio and television studio and an amateur radio station where the amateur service is demonstrated.
Attractions
In addition to five topics departments of Transport and Communication has other attractions.
Planetarium
The Planetarium of the Museum of Transport is the largest sky simulator Switzerland. Various programs show with projection and audio technology, the starry sky and the phenomena connected with it. After a major renovation (including new seating ) reopened the Planetarium on March 6, 2014. It has since been on a digital projection system, which replaced the previously used, Zeiss optical projector.
Movie theater
In Transport Film Theatre (formerly the IMAX Theatre ) Films are shown daily.
Hans Erni Museum
The house is a large exhibition of the Lucerne artist Hans Erni.
Swissarena
The Swiss Arena is a 200 m² large aerial view of Switzerland at a scale of 1:20 '000. It can be done with felt slippers.