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Lucerne Museums and Galleries Walk

Lucerne Museums and Galleries Walk

Lucerne · Switzerland

7 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Explore Lucerne through museums devoted to art collections, panoramic presentation, glacier-themed features, local history, and distinctive visual subjects. At Sammlung Rosengart and Kunstmuseum Luzern, compare two different approaches to presenting art; at Bourbaki Panorama and Art Panorama Inferno, focus on panoramic formats. The route also brings together Gletschergarten Luzern, Museum Luzern, and Museum im Bellpark, making this a varied walk through Lucerne’s museum landscape.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Rosengart Collection

    Rosengart Collection

    A former Swiss National Bank now holding major collections of Klee and Picasso.

  2. Kunstmuseum Luzern

    Kunstmuseum Luzern

    A museum born in 1932, now suspended above Lucerne with Swiss art and an international exhibition history.

  3. Bourbaki Panorama

    Bourbaki Panorama

    Bourbaki Panorama is a museum and arts centre in Lucerne.

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. Glacier Garden

    Glacier Garden

    A cellar excavation became a museum of ice, deep time, maps, plants, and mirrors.

  6. Natural History Museum Lucerne

    Natural History Museum Lucerne

    A natural history museum whose collections survived demolition, cellars, and a long journey to Kasernenplatz.

  7. Art Panorama Inferno

    Art Panorama Inferno

    Art Panorama Inferno is a museum in Lucerne, Switzerland.

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.