Alpineum

Alpineum Lucerne.
Station Eismeer of the Jungfraubahn.

The Alpineum is a museum and diorama of the Alps in Lucerne, Switzerland.[1]

History

In 1885, Ernst Hodel senior purchased the building that formerly housed the Lion-Monument-Museum. His plan was to make a permanent exhibition of the large scale landscape paintings of the Alps that he loved. With the help of his son Ernst Hodel junior, he realized a series depicting the Alps, which debuted in May 1901 under the name Alpineum. The paintings occupy a surface of more than five hundred square meters, offering beautiful and unique insight into the world of the Swiss Alps.

Despite Ernst Hodel the younger passing in 1955, the Alpineum continued operation under his descendants and is still open today.

References

  1. ↑ Alphineum Museum, MySwitzerland.com.

External links

Coordinates: 47°03′28″N 8°18′37″E / 47.0579°N 8.3103°E / 47.0579; 8.3103


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