Museum Luzern

About this audio guide

Museum Luzern in Lucerne keeps a small, strange stone in its earth sciences hall, one with a dragon legend attached to it for six hundred years. This guide follows the farmer who found it in the hills above Rothenburg, the city council that certified its healing powers in the fifteen twenties, and the plague, surgeons and noble families who passed it hand to hand for generations. It also traces how the stone vanished for decades inside a Basel museum before turning up again by accident. Look for it in the earth sciences section, where its odd painted markings are still on view.