Outstanding experience for anyone who is willing to learn about the history of Liechenstein. The National Museum comprises 3 full floors of exhibition rooms (main building), as well as the Treasury Museum, located in the Post Mail Museum building a few meters away.
The ground floor is dedicated to temporary expositions, when we visited (in the Winter) they had thousands of vintage Christmas decorations made mostly out of glass, brass, and cart board. It was quite impressive to say the least. There is also a section dedicated to football history in this floor.
On the 1st and 2nd floors, you can find dozens of artifacts and their descriptions, you can also learn more about highlight entries through the Audio Guide, by typing the respective codes. The guides can be requested at the reception in different languages, eg. English. The entry costs 10€ per ticket.
Overall, it took us around 2 hours to check the entire museum and explore the history of Liechenstein. We had a very interesting afternoon at this museum, as they have contents for beginners who know nothing much about the country's past, as well as unique artefacts like thousands of years old coins and manuscripts. It's surely worth visiting if you come to...
Read moreI recently visited their permanent exhibit and Pompeji special show. I spent less than 1 hour in the Museum on Sunday shortly before closing and was treated very courteous and professional by a very friendly staff. I got to interact with staff members who made all the difference through their friendliness. I learnt a lot about the history of Liechtenstein and was impressed by the quality of artifacts on display. I specially like the interaction of artsy objects with historical trivia of all sorts. Not a boring museum at all, and 1 hour was definitely not enough to see it all. The staff was so friendly and apologetic of having to throw me out of museum at closing time that they offered me a courtesy ticket for the following Sunday. Which I refused to accept. The museum visit was in itself worth the while and I will be happy to visit again sometime. I highly recommend the self service walk-in coffee shop. Great pastries, great coffee, great ambience. The museum shop has lots of stuff for every taste...even Pasta Made in Liechtenstein. Great Museum. Great Staff. GREAT OVERALL...
Read moreDefinitely worth visiting if you’re in Vaduz! Lots of information on the history of Liechtenstein from the ancient days of man up through modern times. Great stuff about culture too. I’d recommend 1-2 hours (minimum to maximum) if you just have a day in Vaduz like I did! That’s enough time to either get a quick overview of Liechtenstein, and 2 hours you could do a pretty deep dive. Gift shop is pretty nice too, add 10 minutes to explore that :)
Only had an hour - wish I’d skipped the whole bottom floor’s “ancient times” and gone right up to the top floor, as I was mostly interested in learning about the last century or so. Second floor was nice too with history from the 1200s-1700s or so. 10 CHF entrance fee comes with a little audio device that explains everything in your native language if you can’t read the German descriptions...
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