There is currently work on the expansion and renovation of the new home of the Municipal Museum of Merano at the old Palace Steinach, located in the square at the end of Portici near the parish of St. Nicholas. Until transfer to a new home, a small selection of the objects of the museum is exhibited at the premises of the "Aquila Rossa"....

The Museion is an “open” museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The building’s cubic shape is charged with strong visual impact, and the architecture itself is a vehicle of dialog: the front and rear facades are largely transparent, and place the city’s historical center in dialog with some of its more recent areas, as well as with the meadows...

Over 5000 years ago, a man climbed up to the icy heights of the Schnalstal glacier and died. He was found by accident in 1991, with his clothes and equipment, mummified and frozen: an archaeological sensation and a unique snapshot of a Copper Age man. For several years highly specialised research teams examined ...

Opened in 1997, the South Tyrol Nature Museum offers a biological and cultural excursion through a wide range of European regions and illustrates the origin and appearance of South Tyrol’s unique mountain and valley habitats. This permanent exhibition, with live animals and barrier reef aquarium, is complemented by diverse additional exhibitions...

Copper has been mined for over half a millennium in Prettau in the Ahrn Valley. The mining museum has been housed in the mine’s grain store (“Kornkasten”) since autumn 2000. The museum features a multimedia collection donated by the Enzenberg family. Contemporary film clips, wooden models, paintings, mine maps, books, documents and mining...

The Women's Museum describes the history of woman with clothes and fashion trends, with accessories and everyday objects; tells about the woman’s life of past epochs up to the present. In the women’s museum you can experience how the corset, literally, has constricted the woman into a role; in what manner the miniskirt has revolutionized not...

Situated in Tyrol’s best-known wine-growing region, the South Tyrol Museum of Wine in the centre of Kaltern introduces visitors to the history and importance of wine. The tour through the former tax office of a princely manor illustrates the work and customs of South Tyrol viniculture with the help of various pieces of equipment, wine presses,...

At the village of Solda in Val Venosta valley, under the famous mountain peak Ortles, called at random by non-residents "the end of the world", is the Messner Mountain Museum Ortles. The museum, built by the famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner, is dedicated to the eternal ice and show "the horrors of the glaciers" in...

The MuseumPasseier is located at the Sandhof in St. Leonhard, the birthplace of the freedom fighter Andreas Hofer (1767–1810). The central structure, the MuseumPasseier – Andreas Hofer is housed in the Sandhof, a listed inn building, and consists of three areas: Andreas Hofer, Folklore and an Open Air display. At the former farmstead of the...