Zeppelin Museum

Northeastern Switzerland


Friedrichshafen will forever be associated with the Zeppelin, the cigar-shaped craft that made its inaugural flight in 1900. The Zeppelin Museum traces the history of this bombastic but ill-fated means of air transport.


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