The robotic car wall
A crane fetching your century's car like a library order.
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Switzerland's most visited museum outright — and Europe's biggest transport house: climbable locomotives, real Swissair aircraft, a space capsule, and a century of cars on a robotic wall serving them like a library, around an inner court of pedal boats and a children's driving school. 'Museum' by name, science funfair in fact: driving simulators and endless interactive wings, the miniature-Switzerland hall scented with chocolate — plus the country's largest planetarium, an IMAX cinema and the Media World wonders in its wings — whole families dissolve here for a day and never finish the halls. It sits on the lakeshore by tram or steamer from the centre — and is all Lucerne's first wet-and-winter answer, without competitor.
A crane fetching your century's car like a library order.
Real locomotives and aircraft with climbable seats — touching finally allowed.
Roads and signals at age-eight scale — carts issuing instant licences.
A real capsule and Switzerland's largest planetarium — sky after earth.
Lidostrasse 5, 6006 Lucerne
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Bourbaki PanoramaBefore cinema, the panorama was the age's magic: giant circular paintings surrou24 minutes walk4.4Three to teens gaplessly: the small for boats, traffic school and touch halls; ten-up for simulators, space and IMAX — and adults hijack the locomotive cabs for themselves. Few European places level the ages so.
By guaranteed reverse: book the dome or IMAX slot first as the day's anchor, split wings before and after with an inner-court siesta — restaurants are Swiss-reasonable with lawn-picnic alternatives. Full ambition honestly merits the two-day ticket.
The Swiss Chocolate Adventure in the Lindt wing: a rotating-seat ride through Switzerland's cocoa story with scent bursts and a closing sample — a light charmer between heavy wings, included in the all-in pass.