Tiso Mineral Museum | Villnöss

How to reach the Tiso Mineral Museum

In the center of the idyllic mountain village of Tiso/Teis, situated at an elevation of 960 meters between the Isarco and Funes valleys, you’ll find the expertly organized Mineral Museum. It
provides a comprehensive overview of the origins and nature of crystals, which can be found in the Dolomites and be admired in the museum today.

Paul Fischnaller, a mountain guide and mineral collector from Tiso, has recovered rock crystals from the Funes Mountains over the course of the last thirty years. The best known of these are probably the Teiser Balls. These geodes and agate nodules are embedded in their parent rock, a quartz-porphyry tuff, and can reach up to twenty centimeters in diameter. The cavity of these druses contain up to seven different minerals. Children in particular love the guided hikes, during which they can search for Teiser Balls themselves. The museum shop has extensive literature on the subject as well as souvenirs, Teiser Balls, jewelry and healing stones.

Opening hours:
April 14 th to November 3th 2019
Tuesday to Friday: 10 am to 12 am / 2 pm to 4 pm
Saturday to Sunday from 2 pm to 5 pm
Monday: closed

Free entry:

Adult 5,00 €
Children 6-15 years 2,00 €
Groups over 15 persons 4,00€
School class 1,50 €
Guidet tour on request in April and May on Sunday 25,00 €

Kontakt
Tiso Mineral Museum
Teiser Straße 12
39040 Villnöss
+39 0472-844 522

Museum of Mining | South Tyrol

How to reach the South Tyrolean Museum of Mining in Predoi, in Cadipietra, in Ridanna, and in Monteneve

History
Even in the Bronze Age, more than 4.000 years ago, it is said that copper was sought in Prettau. A so-called winged ax from that era, supposedly discovered in the mine in 1864, is evidence for this: the circumstances of its discovery have never been fully established.
The first confirmed reference to mining activity in Prettau is from the year 1426 when two guns of “Tauferer copper” were cast. The local copper was not especially suitable for making guns, however. Its exceptional ductility made it rather more suited to wire and brass production.
As elsewhere, mining started at Prettau on ore outcrops, i.e. where it reached the Earth’s surface, in this case in the vicinity of the Rötkreuz mountain at some 2.000 meters above sea level. The veins of ore, from one to ten meters wide, led down around 550 meters from there. At first, it was enough to excavate shafts to reach the veins but, from the end of the 15th century on, galleries had to be driven into the mountainside. Such excavation works sometimes took decades until the veins could be reached.
Over the centuries the “tradesmen”, as the mine operators were called, constantly changed. They were mostly from noble families, who would lease the mining rights from the sovereign princes. The last tradesman was Count von Enzenberg, who had to close the works in 1893 as copper imported from the USA could not be beaten on price. It was only a temporary closure, however, as operations resumed between 1957 and 1971 when the mine was finally closed on ecological and economic grounds, with just 35 (mostly local) miners working in the galleries.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact:
Museum of Mining South Tyrol
Via Fienili 8b
39042 Bressanone
+39 0472 055085

Ulten Valley Folklore Museum | Ulten

How to reach the Ulten Valley Folklore Museum

The Ulten Valley Folklore Museum offers an excellent overview of the life of the farmers in the Ulten Valley.

Opening hours:
May – October:
Tuesday and Friday 11 am – 12 am and 3 pm – 5 pm
Sunday 10 am – 12 am and 3 pm – 5 pm

Prices:
Voluntary donation

Note:
Free entry with the Winepass!

Contact
Ultner Talmuseum
St. Nikolaus 107
39016 Ulten
+39 0473-790374

GEO Museum | Radein

How to reach the GEO Museum 

The GEO Museum at Redagno is accommodated in the Peter-Rosegger house next to the church in Oberradein. It displays the most significant finds from the GEOPARC in the Bletterbach gorge and the most characteristic rock varieties found in the vicinity.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact: 
GEO Museum
Lerch 40
39040 Aldino
+39 0471 886946

Lahnersäge National Park Visitor’s Center | Ulten Valley

How to reach the Lahnersäge

The century-old Lahnersäge in St. Gertraud in Ulten Valley, which until the 80s served as a sawmill to the local farmers in the Ulten Valley. Today the building is home to the new visitors’ center in the National Park. The National Park exposition features movies, slideshows and fascinating recreations of historical events, painting a vivid picture of the historical significance that wood had for the inhabitants of the valley.

Opening hours:
May 2nd to October 31st 2019:
Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 am to 12:30 am and from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
July to August also on Sunday drom 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Entry fees:

Adults 3,00 €
Children from 7 to 14 years 2,00 €
School class 1,50€
School class with guidet tour 2,50€
Children under 6 years
 free entry
Family ticket
 7,00€
Mini-Family ticket
 4,00€
Seniors over 65 years
 2,00€
Groups over 10 persons
 2,00
People with disabilities and students
 2,00€
Guidet tour for groups with max. of 10 persons
 10,00€
Guidet tour for groups over 10 persons
 1,00€

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Contact:
Lahnersäge
Lahnersäge 62
39016 St. Gertraud/Ulten
+39 0473 798123

Three Peaks Nature Park | Pusteria Valley

How to reach the Tre Cime nature Park

Founded in 1981, the Drei Zinnen / Tre Cime Nature Park extends over a 11,891 hectare area comprising the villages of Toblach / Dobbiaco, Sexten / Sesto and Innichen / San Candido. It encompasses the northeastern cornerstone of the Dolomites and is bounded to the north by Pustertal / Pusteria valley, to the east by Sextental / Val di Sesto valley, to the south by the provincial border with Belluno, and to the west by Höhlensteintal / Val di Landro valley.
The Drei Zinnen / Tre Cime Nature Park is notable for its rugged landscape and world renowned peaks and mountains, and above all for the world renowned Drei Zinnen / Tre Cime di Lavaredo mountains, where, beginning in the first half of the 19th century, mountain climbers from far and near achieved pioneering feats of mountain climbing. Today, expert climbers from around the world exhibit their climbing acumen on the vertical rock faces of these mountains.

The park is part of the European-wide Natura 2000 sites, which aim to promote habitat, flora and fauna conservation and were established under the EU’s FFH Directive (92/43/EC) and Bird’s Directive (2009/147/EC). Article 6(1) of the FFH Directive requires EU member states to elaborate conservation measures for Natura 2000 sites, to which end the province of South Tyrol commissioned so called management plans.

Each park has an executive board whose members are representatives of the relevant municipalities, an expert in natural sciences, representatives of nature conservation associations, farmers’ rapresentatives and representatives of the relevant provincial agencies.

Opening hours:
May 2nd to October 31st 2019.
Tuesda to saturday from 9:30 am to 12:30 am and from 2:30pm to 6 pm
July and August also on Sunday the whole day and on Thursday from 6pm to 10 pm

Free entry!

Contact:
Tre Cime Nature Park Dobbiaco
Via Dolomiti 37
39034 Dobbiaco
+39 0474 973017

Museum in the Residence of Bishop Johannes Zwerger | Altrei

How to reach the Museum

The museum is the former residence of the Prince-Bishop Johannes Zwerger documents the life and works of Altrei’s most famous citizen. Documents about his life and objects from his everyday life bear witness to his work.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact:
Museum im Heimathaus des Bischof Johannes Zwerger
Guggal 15
39040, Altrei
+39 0471 882021

Sciliar-Catinaccio visitor centre | Tires

How to reach the Sciliar-Catinaccio visitor centre 

Where the Ciamin valley begins, in the locality of Bagni di Lavina Bianca, you will find the visitor centre of the Sciliar-Catinaccio Nature Park. Once the house served as a rare Venetian water mill, called “Steger Säge”, but today it hosts the park’s valuable information centre. The centre tells you all about the geology of the Sciliar massif and the origins of the Dolomites in a lively and interesting way. It also features a media room, where a film about the world of rocks is displayed in regular intervals.

Additionally to the visitor centre in Tires there is an info point near to the Pond of Fiè. Here you might get lots of information about the flora of the pond, the local fauns and reeds, and about the fish living in the pond. Also in Siuso allo Sciliar a visitor centre is under construction (inauguration scheduled for 2018). Did you know that building mountain huts has also promoted the spread of certain animals as ermines or black redstarts, a small passerine bird? In search for food they’ve moved towards the mountain huts.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact:
Sciliar-Catinaccio visitor centre
Weißlahn 14
39050 Tires
+39 0471 642196

Beekeeping Museum Plattnerhof | Renon

How to reach the Beekeeping Museum Plattnerhof

In Wolfsgruben/Costalovara, not far from the stop of the Railway Renon, you will find the Beekeeping Museum at the historical Plattnerhof farm, located on a small hill and easily visible from a distance.

The Plattnerhof farm is one of Renon’s oldest farmhouses. Today, it is a fascinating historical farmhouse museum, and in its ancient barn it hosts the region’s largest collection of beekeeping tools and machinery. So, visitors walking through the living courters of the farmhouse travel back in time and see how farmers lived in the past. Then, upon entering the barn, they move into the world of honey making and are told about bees and beekeeping in South Tyrol. The educational trail outdoors on the picturesque little hill explains the world from a bee’s point of view. Definitely worth a visit!

Note: Free entry with RittenCard.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact:
Plattner Bienenhof
Wolfsgruben 15
39054 Oberbozen
+39 0471 345350

Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites | Belluno

How to reach the Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites

The Museum in the Clouds, located on Monte Rite (2181 m) between Pieve di Cadore and Cortina d’Ampezzo in the heart of the Dolomites, is sensational for the views alone. The plateau at the summit offers a 360° panorama of the most spectacular mountains in the Dolomites: Monte Schiara, Monte Agnèr, Monte Civetta, Marmolata, Monte Pelmo, Tofana di Rozes, Sorapis, Antelao, Marmarole. The theme of the museum in the old fort is “rock”. The museum illustrates the process of the conquest of the Dolomites – with reference to those natural scientists and mountaineers who wrote alpine history with their discoveries, new routes, and first ascents. At the heart of the museum, there is a big gallery housing a collection of unique paintings of the Dolomites, from the Romantic period up to today.
Inside, the renovated fort resembles the nave of a church with twenty side altars, where Reinhold Messner gives a phase-by-phase account of the development of the Dolomites.
He tells the story with the help of relics and souvenirs and with reference to those natural scientists and mountaineers who wrote alpine history with their discoveries, new routes, and first ascents – from Dolomieu and the British pioneers to Michl Innerhofer and Georg Winkler, from Angelo Dibona and Michele Bettega to Emilio Comici and the Sixth Grade, as well as the Direttissima climbers like Alexander Huber and Lothar Brandler on the Moderne Zeiten route.

Please check this website for detailed information on opening hours and prices.

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Contact:
Messner Mountain Museum Dolomites
Monte Rite
32040 Cibiana di Cadore
+39 388 1568007