[2] In 1932, the Kunstmuseum Luzern moved into the Kunst- und Kongresshaus building (nicknamed Meili-Bau) built by Armin Meili (1892–1981), which was expanded in the 1970s.

From 1996 to 1998, the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center KKL was constructed on the same site, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel.

[4] In 2001, the museum was moved into the newly designed Kunst- und Kongresshaus building.

[5] The art collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern sees itself as a "cultural archive of the Central Switzerland region" and houses several thousand objects from the Renaissance to the present-day.

The museum shows five to eight temporary exhibitions per year, featuring artists of both Swiss and international origins.