Natur-Museum Luzern, Natural history museum in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Natur-Museum Luzern is a natural history museum spread across three floors with permanent exhibitions on earth sciences, biology, and insects. The rooms display everything from minerals and crystals to mounted animals from different parts of the world.
The roots go back to the 18th century when Karl Nicolaus Lange founded a cabinet of natural objects that later changed names and moved several times. The museum reached its current location in 1978 and merged with collections that originally came from a monastery.
The museum's name recalls Karl Nicolaus Lange's 18th-century Museum Lucernense Langianum, whose holdings passed to the canton after St. Urban's dissolution in 1848. Today the three permanent exhibitions are labelled in German: Erdwissenschaften, Biologie and Wunderwelt Insekten.
The entrance is at Kasernenplatz 6 and the place is wheelchair accessible, with assistance dogs allowed throughout. It helps to check opening times in advance and plan enough time to see all three floors.
The building itself is a 1976 reconstruction of Jakob Singer's Waisenhaus (1808–1811), dismantled from Baselstrasse 10 to make way for the A2 motorway and rebuilt here partly with original components. It replaced an infantry barracks built 1861–1863 and demolished in 1971.
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