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  • Easter Monday 01.04.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Sechseläuten 15.04.2024 closed

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • International Museum Day 21.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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  • Knabenschiessen 09.09.2024 closed

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Today

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Opening times

Museum, boutique and bistro

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  • openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.friday Open till openinghours.days.long.sunday openinghours.openfromto.long

Library

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  • openinghours.days.long.thursday openinghours.openfromto.long

  • openinghours.days.long.saturday Open till openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Christmas 25.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • 27.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • 28.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • 29.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • 30.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2023 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • New Year´s Day 01.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Saint Berchtold 02.01.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Good Friday 29.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Kars Saturday 30.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Easter 31.03.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Easter Monday 01.04.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Sechseläuten 15.04.2024 closed

  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Ascension Day 09.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whitsun 19.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Whit Monday 20.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • International Museum Day 21.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Long Night of the Museums 07.09.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Long Night of the Museums 08.09.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

  • Knabenschiessen 09.09.2024 closed

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Legal era in the canton of Vaud

Christophe Vuilleumier

8. December 2023

Seven of the first 36 federal councillors came from Vaud. And all of them were lawyers. This is not surprising, as jurisprudence was highly valued in the west of Switzerland.

The first seven federal councillors from Vaud were active in the legal profession. Illustration by Marco Heer.

Travels in Germany during the First World War

Katrin Brunner

6. December 2023

Despite the dangers, Jean Bucher, boss of a Swiss manufacturer of agricultural machinery, travelled to Germany several times during the First World War. With him he carried his travel diaries, in which he impressively captured daily life in a country at war.

Women making grenades at the steelworks in Osnabrück, 1915.

The undead lady of Lucerne

Michael van Orsouw

4. December 2023

Marie Josse d’Hemel was a distinguished lady who married a Lucerne patrician. She is also said to have died twice. The first time a gravedigger wanted to steal her expensive clothes, which prompted her to return from the dead and live on for another 20 years – a cautionary tale for any would-be grave robbers.

Marie Josse Pfyffer-d’Hemel is said to have had 20 years added on to her life because of a grave robber.
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