Museums

Pharmacy Museum of Bressanone

The Bressanone Pharmacy Museum has been open to visitors since the autumn of 2002 in the building of the Municipal Pharmacy. Its unusual pieces on display regarding the production of pharmaceuticals, such as pill presses, pill rakes, and suppository forms, make it into a veritable treasure trove of pharmaceutical history for experts and lay people alike.
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Diocesan Museum Brixen

In over 70 rooms the Diocesan Museum displays a representative cross section of the sacred art of the South Tyrol. It houses the well-known Nativity collection and parts of the treasure collection belonging to Brixen Cathedral, including the famous Adlerkasel. The collection of medieval sculpture and panel painting is the most comprehensive in the South Tyrol and is particularly worth seeing
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Augustinian Abbey of Neustift/Novacella

This is one of the most significant monasteries in Tyrol, and the majority of it is open to the public: the Baroque collegiate church with famous ceiling frescoes by Matthäus Günther, the medieval cloister with frescoes from the 14th and 15th cen. and the tomb of the troubadour Oswald von Wolkenstein, the chapel of St. Vigil, the library with its collection of precious manuscripts, and the art gallery with its impressive collection of Gothic panel paintings (by Friedrich Pacher, Marx Reichlich, and Andreas Haller).
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Loretoschatz

The "Klausner Schatz" - also as Loretoschatz mentioned - belongs to our most valuable cultural properties. Despite wars, disasters and culture robbery the treasure remained maintained by the inhabitants of Klausen.

Mineralogical Museum of Teis

The collection of mineralogist Paul Fischnaller includes over 200 geodes from Teis (Tiso), a variety of rock crystals, and other minerals from the Alpine area.  

South Tyrol Museum of Mining - Schneeberg area

On the Schneeberg mountain, the highest mine in Europe has been nearly completely preserved. Also unique in all of Europe is therefore the comprehensive view of 800 years of lasting mining history.
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Museum of the Loden

Museum about the magic world of the "Loden" (typical Tyrolean coats):

Experience the unique "Loden"- world and have a look at the sensual world of this mystical material. With modern video-techniques, simulations and historical tools we show You the suggestive way from the sheep to the final product, the coat.The world of the "Loden-coats" with the enclosure, museum, manufacture and shop.

Museum of Ethnography

Founded in 1976, the Museum of Ethnography is the oldest of the provincial museums of South Tyrol. It is located in the imposing Mair am Hof residence in the Puster (Pusteria) Valley. Taken note of by travel writers as early as the 19th cen., the manor is now home to an open-air museum which offers a view of social life in the past with the juxtaposition of houses of the nobility, self-reliant agriculturists, and smaller farmers, along with several examples of the technology of the period.
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South Tyrol Museum of Archeology

The Provincial Museum of Archeology was inaugurated in 1998. In addition to its permanent exhibit 'The Iceman', it documents the prehistory and early history of South Tyrol from the end of the last Ice Age (about 15,000 BC) to the time of Charlemagne (around 800 AD).
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Messner mountain museum

With a central museum in Sigmundskron and four folders, in which single topics are treated, Messner would like to create a mountain museum, which is unique. All five museums, which result in the Messner Mountain museum in the sum, are interlaced, the ways (roads) between them are organized among themselves part of the experience and from the center.
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Museum of Hunting and Fishing - Wolfsthurn Castle

The mighty Wolfsthurn Castle towers above the village of Mareit (Mareta). Since 1996 it has been the home of the South Tyrol Museum of Hunting and Fishing, a branch of the Provincial Museum of Ethnography in Dietenheim (Teodone).
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On May 24th Museion had inaugurate its new building, designed by the Berlin studio of KSV Architects: Krüger, Schuberth, Vandreike.The new Museion is an “open” museum. 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 that flank the Talvera River. The new Museion building presents itself as an equally physical and symbolic links between the two parts of the city.
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