This museum was included with our SwissPass. Great handheld devices to take you through the multitude of artifacts on display. Certainly some great pieces of history in their collection.

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... More

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... More

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... More

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... More