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  • openinghours.days.long.monday closed

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  • Labour Day 01.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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  • Corpus Christi 30.05.2024 openinghours.openfromto.long

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Life-size knight with lance on horseback

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

make a reservation online

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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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