It bills itself as a "depot", and that's how the collection is presented - it's a cross between a museum, a junk store and an attic store-room, all within the old Lucerne arsenal.
Once you get beyond the unorthodox presentation, though, there are some absolute treasures among the objects on display - just as an example, the chain mail of...
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Historisches Museum Luzern
Pfistergasse 24 | Postfach, Lucerne 6000, Switzerland
41 (0)41 228 54 24
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Ranked #18 of 21 attractions in Lucerne
11 Reviews
Type: History Museums
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- 18 May 2012
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We spent the day doing in doorsy things due to bad weather and we ended up here. From the get go the museum struck me as "different" ... and that was kinda nice. Then we got instructions on how to use the scanner and I thought that was very cool.
Then we entered the museum proper and it looked nothing...
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It was refreshing to scan the barcodes in front of the exhibits instead of being bombarded by long text. To gain a better insight to certain areas of interest such as the history of Lucerne or the Lion Monument, scan the barcodes for the games at the yellow wall full of barcodes near each staircase. Then, you can either go...
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This museum is PACKED (in a organized way!) with history of Lucerne from like 900 on. Seriously the amount of stuff which is so well organized is a bit overwhelming. You get this little scanner that you scan as many bar codes as you want (corresponds to item) and you can read in your language about the item. You can...
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