Landshut Castle

Switzerland’s only hunting museum came to Landshut in 1968. The aim of the exhibition is to provide information about animals that are hunted and the people who hunt them, to raise awareness of the value of wildlife protection and hunting, and to forge bridges between agriculture, forestry and hunting. Featuring preserved animal specimens and rare objects, the permanent exhibitions focus on current and historical aspects of hunting and nature. Also on display are collections of European repute. Special exhibitions on topics related to nature or hunting are held every one to two years. The special exhibition launched in 2018, “Lipstick and Bullets”, looks at the role of women in hunting.

The estate has been owned by the Schloss Landshut Foundation since 1988, while the Swiss Museum of Wildlife and Hunting is managed by the Natural History Museum of Bern. The manorial estate complete with castle, park, the farm building housing the Wildstation Landshut Foundation, an orangery and outbuildings has been preserved largely in its original condition. Securiton was tasked with modernising the existing fire alarm system, equipping the special exhibition with a new intruder alarm system and replacing the old video installation with an up-to-the-minute video monitoring system. The fire alarm system installed was the modular SecuriFire 3000 with redundancy capability, which was equipped with 84 smoke detectors and four SecuriRAS ASD 531 aspirating smoke detectors, which are specially conceived to detect nascent fires in historically sensitive settings and are virtually invisible. Meanwhile, the new exhibition enjoys the protection of a SecuriSafe IP-based intrusion detection system and stateof- the-art dome cameras designed to provide the IPS VideoManager with razor-sharp images.