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New permanent exhibition of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology 2013

Twenty have years passed since a married couple hiking on a glacier up in the Ötztal Alps discovered one of the most important mummies ever found. People, media and science from all over the world followed the recovery of Ötzi, the man from the ice, who had been preserved there for 5,300 years...

The Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology

The Importance of the Find and the Exhibition in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology



The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano/Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy, was opened on the 28th of March, 1998. In its 1,200 square meters of...