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Swiss Museum of Transport

Swiss Museum of Transport - Photo by Tom Key1 / 1
📷Tom Key

Sitting on the shores of Lake Lucerne, the Swiss Museum of Transport offers photographers a striking blend of industrial design, colorful signage, and waterfront scenery. The most iconic exterior shot is the automotive hall facade, completely covered in road signs of every shape and color, giving you a bold, graphic composition that works well with a wider lens to capture the full surface, or a longer focal length to compress and isolate individual sign clusters. Shoot this wall in overcast light to avoid harsh shadows and bring out the saturated colors evenly. Inside, you will find aircraft, locomotives, and vintage vehicles that reward tighter framing and detail shots. The lakeside setting also gives you opportunities to combine the museum structures with reflections or distant Alpine backdrops. The site is centrally located and easily walkable from Lucerne's main rail station. (Lucerne, Canton Lucerne, Switzerland)

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