Verkehrshaus der Schweiz

Geschichte

The Swiss Transport Museum or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, in Lucerne, is a museum, opened in July 1959 and exhibiting all forms of transport (including locomotives, automobiles, ships, and aircraft) as well as communications. It is Switzerland's most popular museum. The museum also maintains a large collection of work by Hans Erni, a local painter and sculptor.There are several other attractions in the museum besides the collection: Planetarium IMAX Swiss Arena, a 1:20,000 scale aerial photograph of Switzerland It also houses EURECA, a 4.5 tonne satellite among the few space objects put into space and returned safely;EURECA and its return to Earth was a cooperative effort between several Western European countries and the United States in the 1990s.A Spacelab Pallet was handed over to the Museum for permanent display on 5 March 2010. The Pallet, nicknamed Elvis, was used during the 8-day STS-46 mission, 31 July - 8 August 1992, when ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier was on board Shuttle Atlantis to deploy ESA's European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) scientific mission and the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1). The Pallet carried TSS-1 in the Shuttle's cargo bay.

"Das meistbesuchte Museum der Schweiz zeigt die Mobilitätsgeschichte auf der Strasse, der Schiene, dem Wasser, in der Luft und im Weltall. Daneben warten mit Planetarium, Filmtheater und Swiss Chocolate Adventure schweizweit einzigartige Attraktionen auf die Besucherinnen und Besucher."