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  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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10:00 - 17:00

Opening times

Museum

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

  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

Special opening times

  • Swiss National Holiday 01.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Assumption Day 15.08.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Museum Night 12.09.2025 10:00 - 17:00
    18:00 - 23:59

  • All Saints´ Day 01.11.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Saint Martin 11.11.2025 closed

  • Immaculate Conception 08.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • Christmas Eve 24.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

  • Christmas 25.12.2025 closed

  • St. Stephen´s Day 26.12.2025 10:00 - 17:00

  • New Year´s Eve 31.12.2025 10:00 - 14:00

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Lebensgrosser Ritter mit Lanze auf Pferd

Switzerland in the Making

Guided tours for groups

During the three-storey guided tour, a cultural mediator explains important topics concerning the foundation and early development of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the Middle Ages: Relations between king, church, aristocracy, and peasantry; formation of writing; growth of mobility and trade in the alpine region; the communal associations the people inhabiting the valleys around the Lake of Lucerne established; the significance of the treaties they entered into with the growing towns and the role that the early rural assemblies played.

Duration 60 minutes.

Registration:  

2 weeks in advance

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60 minutes; special packages can be offered on request

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max. 25 persons per tour

Cost:


 

   CHF 120 for the tour, plus a reduced admission fee of CHF 10 per person.
Free entrance for children up to 16 years.
Opening hours:   Tuesdays - Sundays between 10.00 am – 17.00 pm

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Forum of Swiss History Schwyz
+41 41 819 60 11 ForumSchwyz@nationalmuseum.ch

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