Swiss Museum of Transport

The Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne offers an interactive journey through the evolution of mobility, featuring over 3,000 exhibits across 20,000 square meters. Visitors can engage with historic vehicles, simulators, and multimedia presentations. Attractions include the Filmtheatre with Switzerland’s largest screen, a state-of-the-art planetarium, the Swiss Chocolate Adventure, and the Hans Erni Museum. The museum is accessible by public transport and provides facilities such as guided tours, workshops, event spaces, a cafeteria, and a gift shop.

Planning your visit

The Swiss Museum of Transport is the most visited museum in Switzerland, and it covers mobility across every mode: rail, road, water, air and space, with over 3,000 exhibits across 20,000 square metres on the shore of Lake Lucerne. Locomotives, cable cars, aircraft, ships and a substantial road transport hall are complemented by simulators, a wind tunnel and hands-on stations throughout — this is a museum built around doing rather than reading.

Alpine engineering is the distinctively Swiss thread: the tunnels, the mountain railways, the avalanche defences, and the extraordinary infrastructure a country of mountains required.

Attached are several separate attractions: the Filmtheatre with the largest screen in Switzerland, a planetarium, the Swiss Chocolate Adventure ride, and the Hans Erni Museum devoted to the Lucerne artist.

The multiple attractions mean ticketing choices matter. Day passes covering everything are generally better value than assembling entries individually if you intend to stay several hours, which most families do.

Bookable options include entrance tickets and full-day passes covering the additional attractions. It is easily reached from Lucerne by bus or by boat across the lake. Current availability is listed below.