The Swiss Transport Museum exhibits all forms of transport, including locomotive, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and space artifacts. The museum is located on the shore of Lake Lucerne in the northern section of the city of Lucerne.
The museum houses EURECA, a 4.5-tonne satellite, which is among the few space objects, returned safely to earth. A Spacelab pallet, nicknamed Elvis, used in the STS-46 mission, 1992, is also on display.
Other attractions include:
- A planetarium
- A collection of communication technology
- A large-format cinema
- Aerial photograph of Switzerland.
- A collection of work by Hans Erni
Highlights of the Swiss Museum of Transport
- Swissair Convair 990 Coronado jet airliner
- Rolling stock of the first Swiss railway company
- An SBB Ae 8/14 – 1930s most powerful electrical engine
- An H0 gauge model of the Gotthard railway line
- An Automobiles exhibition with cars from different eras
- Swiss road signs collection
- A Lockheed Orion single-engine airliner
Submarine – Swiss Museum of Transportation, Lucerne, Switzerland
Swiss Museum of Transport
- Museum: Swiss Museum of Transport
- Swiss: Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Transportation House of Switzerland)
- City: Luzern
- Country: Switzerland
- Opened: 1959
- Type: Specialist Museum, Transport Museum
- Location: Lidostrasse 5, 6006 Luzern, Switzerland
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Swiss Museum of Transport – Map
Swiss Museum of Transport – 360 Virtual Tours
Swiss Museum of Transport – 360 Virtual Tours
Swiss Museum of Transport – 360 Virtual Tours
Swiss Museum of Transport – 360 Virtual Tours
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Swiss Museum of Transport
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Swiss Museum of Transport
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– Elon Musk
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