Category: Museums

How to reach the Funes Nature Park House

Puez–Odle Nature Park, which is known as Puez–Geisler in German, encompasses mountain ranges such as the Odle Group and the Peitlerkofel Massif, ranking it amongst the most impressive and most photographed mountain formations in the whole of the Alps. The central information point of the nature park is Funes Nature Park House, which opened in 2009 in San Maddalena in Funes/Villnöss. The simple contemporary cube made of concrete, wood and glass was designed by architects Stefan Burger and Birgit Rudacs and is integrated harmoniously into its surroundings
in terms of both form and colour.

This visitors’ centre in one of the most beautiful valleys
of the Alps has, since it opened, presented many interesting exhibits including a huge
aerial photograph that visitors can walk across and Berge anfassen (Touching the Mountains), which is about rock types and stratification. On the second floor there are also the two permanent exhibits: Wunderkammer der Natur (lit: Nature’s Chamber of Wonders) and Berge erobern (lit: Conquering Mountains)

The mission of Funes Nature Park House is not only to inform, but also to convey the geological, biological and cultural diversity found at Puez-Odle. In so doing, the hope is to raise enthusiasm in people of all ages – not only regarding the natural park’s beauty but also about those things for which it stands.

Opening hours

Free entry!

Contact
Funes Nature Park House
Trebich 1, St. Magdalena
39040 Val du Funes
+39 0472 842523

How to reach the Museum of Popular Culture

The museum of popular culture is situated in a historical building under the arcades of Egna. You can visit the living space of a middle-class family of the 19th and 20th century. The collection of antique furniture and articles of daily use gives you an impression of the life and culture of the past.

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Contact:
Museum of Popular Culture
Alto Adige street 60
39044 Egna
+39 333 2394540

How to reach the Fossil Museum

An excursion into the past.
The fossil museum showcases the most beautiful finds from the area around Meltina and testifies to the geological processes that happened here over millions of years. Eleven display cases present minerals, fossils and geological exhibits. The approx. 250 million years old fossil remains of trees and plants deserve special attention.

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Contact:
Fossil museum Meltina
Via Möltner 1
39010 Meltina
+39 0471 668282

How to reach the Planetarium

The backdrop couldn’t be more beautiful: the first South Tyrolean star village is located at the gates to the Dolomites in the municipality of Cornedo. Stargazers can visit both an astronomical and a solar observatory as well as the 7-km “planetary trail”. One of the world’s most modern planetariums is also located at the very heart of the star village of San Valentino in Campo.

Observatory “Max Valier” and sun observatory “Peter Anich”:
The observatory Max Valier, to which also the sun observatory Peter Anich belongs, is the only people observatory in South Tyrol and is honorary led by the association of the amateur astronomers Max Valier.

The Planetarium:
The South Tyrol Planetarium is located directly on the pretty Gummer village square. Regardless of time of day and weather, the cosmos simulator faithfully recreates the starry sky and the course of the stars. Its image resolution of about 12 million pixels on a dome with a diameter of 8 m is unsurpassed worldwide.
On 55 comfortable armchairs you get a real spaceship feeling, because thanks to 3D technology you are not only a spectator, but you get the feeling of floating in the middle of the stars.

Guided tours:
Guided tours take place every Thursday evening all year round.
Fridays only for closed groups.
Registration and prices at the observatory from Tuesday to Friday from 8.30 to 12.30 and from 13.30 to 15.30, on Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 17.30.

Note: Clothing appropriate to the weather is recommended, in case of rain and snowfall guided tours are not necessary.

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Contact:
Planetarium Alto Adige
San Valentino in campo 5
39053 Cornedo
+39 0471 610020 

How to reach the Museion

Museion, Bolzano’s museum of modern and contemporary art, lies in the heart of South Tyrol, with a view across the peaks of the Rosengarten massif. Since 2008 it has occupied its new venue, designed by the Berlin firm KSV: a striking piece of futuristic architecture inspired by the concepts of transparency and fluidity. Thanks to a bold, international exhibition programme that presents the latest and greatest in contemporary art, often for the first time in Italy, Museion has made a name for itself as one of the leading contemporary art museums in the Alpine area, and Italy as a whole.
The collection boasts more than 4500 works which are presented cyclically in themed shows, often in dialogue with other collections, both public and private. It reflects the museum’s history and past exhibitions, and covers areas including art and language, sculpture, artistic critiques of the contemporary period and the work of non-European artists.
Meeting place Museion is committed to encouraging the public to experience and engage with contemporary art, with a packed programme of mediation and events. In the summer months the media façade lights up the city with striking artist videos, while the Passage area, which also hosts external initiatives, makes Museion a key hub for cultural events including music, dance, and performance.

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Contact:
Museion
Piero Siena Platz 1
39100 Bozen
+ 39 0471 223413

How to reach the Museum of Nature South Tyrol

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Contact:
Museum of Nature South Tyrol
Bindergasse 1
39100 Bozen
+39 0471 412964
+39 0471 412975 (Reservation)

How to reach the South Tyrolean Wine Museum

How could it be otherwise? The South Tyrolean Wine Museum is located in Kaltern! Innumerable objects impress the visitor with the history and significance of wine in South Tyrol. There are impressive wine presses, wine barrels and other wine production tools and equipment. You will hear informative stories and legends about wine – for example, the importance of the “Saltner” as the guard of the vineyards.

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Contact:
Südtiroler Weinmuseum
Goldgasse 1
39052 Kaltern
+39 0471 963168

How to reach the Museum of Archaeology

Three floors of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology are dedicated to original finds and the story of Ötzi, the Man from the Ice: from the media hype surrounding his discovery to the research into the 5,000-year-old, exceptionally well-preserved mummy and the associated items, as well as all sorts of oddities, fascinating interviews and interactive experiences. The highlight of the exhibition is a lifelike reconstruction of Ötzi himself. The top floor of the Museum hosts an annually changing exhibition of archaeological topics.

Ötzi the Iceman
Archaeologic sensation, media star, research topic, museum object:
Ötzi is a glacier mummy from the Copper Age, who, thanks to extraordinary circumstances, has been preserved down to the present day. Little by little, he has imparted genuine stores of knowledge. He was discovered accidentally by hikers in 1991, together with his clothing and equipment, on the Schnalstal/Val Senales Valley glacier and has been the subject of intensive research ever since.

A man from another era
Over 5300 years ago, Ötzi was crossing Tisenjoch/Giogo di Tisa in the Schnalstal/Val Senales Valley, South Tyrol, where he was murdered and preserved naturally in the ice.

He is, therefore, older than the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge and the result of a series of highly improbable coincidences. Ötzi lived during the Copper Age, a period of the late Neolithic. He was still using stone tools but owned an innovative and very valuable copper ax. The skill of extracting and processing metal had recently arrived in Europe from Asia Minor. The advent of copper marked the beginning of the Bronze Age.

Ötzi in the Museum
Ötzi and his artifacts have been exhibited at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy since 1998.

The mummy is stored in a specially devised cold cell and can be viewed through a small window. Ötzi’s numerous pieces of equipment and clothing have been painstakingly restored. Visitors have been amazed by the skills of Stone Age people. The mummy was dubbed Ötzi by the Austrian journalist Karl Wendl, who was looking for a catchy name. The name refers to the discovery site in the Ötztal Valley Alps.

The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology belongs to the autonomous province of Bolzano and is associated with the South Tyrol Regional Museums.

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Contact:
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
Via Museo 43
39100 Bolzano
+39 0471 320100

How to reach the Museum of People through Time

The Museum of People through Time shows the life of people in South Tyrol from the Stone Age up to the very recent past. Various epochs are illustrated using countless original objects, numerous experiments and animations. Annually changing exhibitions offer a glimpse of the large collection.

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Contact:
Ansitz am Orth
Botengasse 2
39040 Kurtatsch
+39 0471 880267