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Museum director Alfred Waldis accepting a DC-3 as a donation from the president of Swissair in 1969. The museum traces its history to 1897, when the first attempts at creating a museum of railway equipment were made. Following a national exhibition in 1914, the Swiss Railway Museum was founded by Swiss Federal Railways in 1918 in Zurich. The ...
After lengthy discussions, a small railway museum was opened in 1918 in the service building of the Zurich freight yard on Hohlstrasse. As the interest for a national transport museum became apparent in the 1950s, the SBB participated in the foundation of the Swiss Museum of Transport, which was finally inaugurated in Lucerne in 1959.
Barbier-Mueller Museum; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine; Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva; Institut et Musée Voltaire; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum; Musée Ariana; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; Musée d'ethnographie de Genève; Natural History Museum of Geneva
Luzern Verkehrshaus railway station (German: Bahnhof Luzern Verkehrshaus) is a railway station in the city of Lucerne, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lucerne–Immensee line of Swiss Federal Railways. The station is directly adjacent to the Swiss Museum of Transport. [1]
In 1885, Ernst Hodel senior purchased the building that formerly housed the Lion-Monument-Museum. His plan was to make a permanent exhibition of the large scale landscape paintings of the Alps that he loved. With the help of his son Ernst Hodel junior, he realized a series depicting the Alps, which debuted in May 1901 under the name Alpineum.
In 1931 the house and surrounding parkland were purchased from the Am Rhyn family by the City of Lucerne. The villa was opened as a museum in 1933. [1] [3] In 1938, the first Lucerne Festival began with a concert in the gardens of the villa, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. It included music by Wagner. [4]
The Seetal railway line (German: Seetalbahn) is a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) (standard-gauge) railway of the Swiss Federal Railways between Lenzburg and Lucerne in Switzerland. The line was opened in 1883 by the Lake Valley of Switzerland Railway Company , which was owned by British investors, and subsequently owned by the Schweizerische ...
It is the southern terminus of the Basel Regional S-Bahn S3 and S9 lines, the northern terminus of the Lucerne S-Bahn S8 line, and the western terminus of the Aargau S-Bahn S26 line. Although Olten only has 18,000 inhabitants, the station is used each day by about 80,000 passengers and is one of the 10 busiest in Switzerland, busier than even ...