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LUCERNE ATTRACTIONS
BOURBAKI PANORAMA
Original Tourist War Exhibit Since 1889
The
Bourbaki Panorama has been a tourist attraction in the city since 1889.
Essentially a mural diorama or figures with a painting background
in surrounding panorama, it depects the brutality of the Franco-Prussian
War, fought from July1870 to February 1871, ending in the defeat for
the French Army in the Jura mountains of the Swiss-French border lands,
and meant the rise of the German Empire of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and the
end of the French Empire under Napoleon III. Almost 90,000 French soldiers
where marched through the snow into Switzerland and tended by the Red
Cross. They were known as the Bourbaki Army.
Swiss
artist Edouard Castres had served as a volunteer with the Red Cross during
the war, and documented the hardships with his sketch pad.
Benjamin Henneberg commissioned Castres to create a giant panoramic painting
of the internment to display in Geneva. In 1885, a panorama exhibit was
planned for Lucerne and the 360 degree panoramic diorama was relocated
to the city in a rotunda exhibit hall, next to the famed weary lion sculpture
and the Glacier Garden. The building rotated in 1925, but a new modern
exhibit opened in the year 2,000. The painting reaches over two levels
in the upstairs rotunda, with 21 war costumed figures added to terrain
leading up to the 10 meter high and 110 meter circular painting, making
for a 3D effect, with added sound effects. Below the panorama exhibit
hall is a restaurant and bar, a gift shop and entrance to a multi-plex
movie theater next door. Admission is 12 Swiss francs for adults and
10 francs for students. Children under 6 are free. A family ticket
is available and a Pass for visiting both the Bourbaki Panorama and the
nearby Glacier
Garden is available. The exhibit is free with a Swiss Pass.
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