In Luxembourg you can find just an incredible collection of museums and, especially interesting will be for the inspection of art galleries. Famous and visited, for example, the Museum of History of Luxembourg and the Museum of Natural History. In addition, people who have visited Luxembourg for the first time will be interested in the Museum of People's Life. A large number of tourists can be found in the Museum of Arms and Fortresses and in the most interesting Museum of ancient musical instruments. The history is kept by the Museum of Urban Transport , as well as the Post and Telecommunications Museum.
From the galleries is worth visiting the municipal gallery Pescatore, which is located in the villa Vaubana , in the beautiful central park of the city. Also popular are the municipal art gallery, exhibitions in the galleries of Bumona (Avenue Monterey) and many others. Still need to mention a beautiful museum of modern art, located at 3, Park Dräi Eechelen. The project of the museum building was created by the same architect who designed the Louvre pyramid.
National Museum of Natural History
The whole family will be very useful to visit the National Museum of Natural History. This museum with its current exposition will remind you that you need to take care of the environment carefully. Here everything is built to help us understand the very complicated processes that take place in nature: on how important the place on Earth is occupied by people, and before the universe is arranged.
The Natural History Museum is located in the house in which the St. John's Hotel was previously located, in the eastern part of the city of Luxembourg , near the Alzet River. Until 1996, this museum, along with the Museum of Art History, huddled in a building on the Fish Market.
Now in the museum you can see several halls, expositions in which are devoted to the protection of the environment and care for its preservation. Visiting the museum, you can better understand the history of human development and even an earlier time - the existence of the world before there was a life on the planet and the first people.
Helpful information:
- Address: Rue Munster 25, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Phone: (+352) 46 22 33 -1
- Website: http://www.mnhn.lu
- Working hours: from 10.00 to 18.00
- Cost: children under 6 years - free of charge; children over 6 years of age, students - € 3.00; adults - € 4.50; family - € 9,00
Museum of Modern Art Grand Duke Jean
The location of this very museum always caused a large number of discussions until 1997, when it was decided to include the museum in the Fort Tyungenistor, a historical complex. The first exhibition was opened in July 2006. Before this museum was created, Luxembourg did not have collections of contemporary art that would be exhibited for inspection.
Painting modernists was expensive, so the museum was presented works of contemporary artists: Julian Schnabel, Andy Warhol and others, the exposition of the works was placed on three floors. And within one year after the opening of the museum's expositions, it was visited by more than one hundred thousand tourists and local residents. For Luxembourg, this was a record.
Helpful information:
- Address: 3, Park Dr & auml i Eechelen, L-1499 Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg
- Phone: +352 45 37 85 1
Museum of Villa Vauban
In 1873 an interesting building was built in Luxembourg, in which the museum is now located. It was built as a private closed residence, and, in addition, was one of the parts of the defensive fortifications of the city. In the basement of the present museum and in our time there was a fragment of the fortress wall, which has survived since those times.
The style in which the residence was erected is strictly classical, but it is not devoid of neoclassical elements. After that, when all the protective structures that were located around the building, were removed, there was laid a huge beautiful garden. Its author was an excellent landscape designer.
The Villa Vauban is also exhibited to display works that previously existed in three different collections. Their influential people, who valued art, bequeathed to the city. One of those who left such a valuable gift, which included Dutch painting of the 17th century and paintings of new contemporary artists of France, as well as drawings and beautiful sculptures, was a ball of a banker named Jean-Pierre Pescatore. Another gift was transferred to the museum by Leo Lippmann. This person was also a banker, and also served as Consul General of the State of Luxembourg in Amsterdam. The collection, donated by him, included, in the main, works of art of the 19th century. Another collection was donated to the museum by a pharmacist, who was called Zhodok Hoczherts. The collection consists of portraits and still lifes of the 18th century.
Helpful information:
- Address: 18 rue Emile Reuter, 2090 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Phone: +352 47 96 4902
National Museum of History and Art
The museum opened its doors to visitors in 1869 in Luxembourg. In it you can see both historical exhibits, and those that represent artistic value, there are also archaeological exhibits. There are also artifacts that belong to all the epochs of the history of the glorious Duchy of Luxembourg. The museum was created thanks to the enthusiasm of individuals, but now it is financed by the state.
The museum is located in a modern building, in the "Upper Town", this is the historic district of Luxembourg. From the found archaeological finds here are exhibited stone tools, found skeletons, and also you can see documents, various weapons and ancient coins. Among the items related to the decorative and applied industry, you can see the bust of Septimius Severus from marble, to consider gravestones and small fragments that belonged to the medieval culture, figures from the Roman era are on display.
Also in the museum there is a rather large collection of works by artists of the state of Luxembourg and exhibits that refer to traditions or show folk crafts. These are rare copies of handmade furniture, as well as ceramics and samples of silverware. Constantly on the territory of the museum there are exhibitions.
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Helpful information:
- Address: Marche-aux-Poissons, L-2345 Luxembourg
Museum of Urban Transport
In the bus park, in the south-western part of the city, in the barn that survived the restoration, in March 1991 the Museum of Urban Transport opened its doors, which is often called the Museum of trams and buses. This is an exposition where you can learn a lot about the history and development of public transport in the country, starting with the very first horse-drawn carriages. And modern transport is represented by samples of new trams and buses.
The collection of the museum was collected from the sixties and it has several original tram cars that are adjacent to the replica of a horse-drawn car. Two more buses and a car that was used as an official tower are shown in the exposition.
The museum has a fairly large number of old photographs, memos and tablets. Here, the official form and the remaining travel tickets of different times are on display. And in the exhibition there are small models of trams.
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Helpful information:
- Address: Rue de Bouillon63, L-1248 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Phone: +352 47 96 23 85
- Working hours: Thursday - from 13.30 to 17.30; weekends and holidays - from 10.00 to 18.00
City History Museum of Luxembourg
This museum occupies four buildings that were erected in the 17th and 19th centuries. They got a second life after the restoration, when they became an incredibly successful example of how to combine medieval style and modern modernity.
An interesting innovation for such facilities was a large panoramic elevator, which can accommodate more than sixty people at the same time. It moves rather slowly, gradually opening a view of the steep cliffs and showing the center of Luxembourg.
During the work under the ground in the early nineties of the 20th century, vaulted cellars, which caused tourists' interest, were accidentally discovered. The first floor of the museum building is located slightly below the street level, and there are exhibits and collections that tell about the development of architecture in the city. And on the upper floors alternate temporary exhibitions. The complex is equipped with a multimedia system, in which there are many thousands of documents related to the history and different aspects of the city's development.
Helpful information:
- Address: 14, rue du Saint-Esprit, L-2090 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Phone: +352 47 96 45 00
Museum of ancient musical instruments
Near the entrance to the Conservatory of Luxembourg, in its same building, is the Museum of Old Musical Instruments. This is a museum that tells visitors about the history of music, and this is one of those few places where you can consider ancient musical instruments.
The room occupies more than one hundred and eighty square meters and simultaneously accommodates more than one hundred visitors. In the museum there is an exhibition dedicated to classical musical instruments, which operates constantly. The tools are shown in glass showcases.
Helpful information:
- Address: Rue Charles Martel 33, Luxembourg
- Phone: +35 247 965 555
- Opening hours: Monday-Friday - 8.00 - 20.00, Saturday - 8.00 - 19.00, Sunday - closed
- Ticket price: free of charge
Other museums
Among other museums for tourists may be interesting museum of banks, which is open to visitors for free. His exhibits tell how the financial system of Luxembourg developed.
The museum of weapons and fortifications is located in a building that was part of the fortifications created for the defense of the city. In the museum you can use the multimedia center, where you can choose and listen to any interesting information for you. The museum of post and telecommunications, where the exhibits showing the history of postal communication of the country are collected, are also referred to the places visited.
Luxembourg has many more things to look out for. There is an incredible abundance of interesting places, which only the famous Cathedral of the Luxembourg Our Lady , the castles of Beaufort and Vianden , the Palace of the Grand Dukes , the casemates of Bock and the bridge of Adolf . Some talk about history, others demonstrate modernity, but they are all aimed at preserving the heritage of the country.
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