Alpineum
Illustration — Alpineum Lucerne • Illustration — Station Eismeer of the Jungfraubahn The Alpineum is a museum and diorama of the Alps in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Alpineum
Ernst Hodel Junior · Archiv Alpineum · CC BY 3.0
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- 1901.
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- Switzerland.
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- list of cultural properties in Lucerne.
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Illustration — Alpineum Lucerne • Illustration — Station Eismeer of the Jungfraubahn The Alpineum is a museum and diorama of the Alps in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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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, in effect a diorama, though not a continuous one, which opened 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.
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1901
Alpineum established.
1901
Alpineum is recorded from 1901.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4735602: Alpineum
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- “Alpineum”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1174952113, Alpineum (Luzern).
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1174952113, Alpineum (Luzern).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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