Culture and spare time - Museums and attractions

Erboristeria Bergila (Herbs)

Diocesesan museum

Mineral museum

Civic Museum of Brunico

Ethnographic museum

Dolomythos

Museo della Collegiata di San Candido

Touristic museum of the upper Puster valley

Parish museum Taufers

Museum Rudolf Stolz

Museum Ladin - Ciastel de Tor

Erborista Bergila (Herbs)
Visit the pine oil distillery in Issengo. Since 1912 old traditional distillation methods have beenfollowed and adhered to. In our old distillery you will have the possibility to observe the old distillation process, by which we distill our essential oils. Furthermore, you can visit our herbs garden, where we cultivate more than 70 different officinal herbs in accordance with the moon phases of the Maria Thun moon calendar.

Bergila, by Niederkofler Franz
via Treyen, 9 - Issengo
I - 39030 Falzes (BZ)
Phone: +39 0474 565 373
Fax:+39 0474 561 591

Opening hours: from May to November from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Entrance is free of charge!

Bressanone - Museo Diocesano (Diocesesan Museum)
The Museo Diocesano, founded in 1901, has been located in the Palazzo Vescovile (Bishoph´s house) in Bressanone since 1976. This building was the seat of the bishopric up to 1964 and has been the residence of the archbishops since 1250. The sculptures, paintings and arts and crafts of holy artistic production from the Romanesque period up to the Modern age, are on show in the museum. On top of the medieval manoscripts, the collection of crucifixes, and romanesque Mary sculptures and the variety of gothic sculptures and pictures are very interesting and not only on a regional level. Another jewel of the museum are the precious goldsmith´s art crucifixes and objects made in ivory from the Domes treasury. The arts of Michael Pacher and Hans Klocker differ from the late gothic artistic production of the Bressanone area. numerous and important pieces of evidence can be found in the museum. Only from the beginning of the 1530`s was local art influenced by the Renaissance style from Augsburg and Nuremberg. A visit to this museum will also lead you onwards to the church in baroque style created by Cristoforo Benedetti, J.G.D. Graßmair and Kaspar Waldmann. The collection of pictures of tyrolian baroque painters including a piece of work from Paul Troger is also of great value.

Museo Diocesano
Piazza Palazzo Vescovile, 2
39042 Bressanone
Phone:+39/0472/830505 - Fax: +39/0472/208282
brixen@dioezesanmuseum.bz.it
www.dioezesanmuseum.bz.it

Opening times:
15th March - 31st  October
Tues-Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
1st  December - 31st  January
daily 2 p.m.-5 p.m. (crib collection)
closed on December 24th, 25th

Aurina Valley - Museo mineralogico (Mineral Museum)
Numerous samples of minerals from the Alti Tauri mountains, carefully collected by Josef Kirchler over the last few decades, provide evidence of how the Alps were formed. The more than 750 exposed minerals were found in the Zillertal Alps and in the Alti Tauri mountains:
rock crystalls represent the ideal crystall and their transparence is a reminder of the eternal ice on the highest peaks, of feldspars, sparkles, violet amethyst, fluorides, apathetic diamonds, emeralds and titanits, which enchant every observer by their deep green.
Amongst the biggest smoked quartz in South Tyrol, the famous rock crystall 'ritorto' from the Predoi mine can be found.

Museo mineralogico
S. Giovanni, 3
39030 Valle Aurina
Phone: +39/0474/652145 - Fax: +39/0474/652011
artur.kirchler@rolmail.net
www.museo-mineralogico.it

Opening times:
start of May - end of October
daily 9.30 a.m.-12 p.m., 3 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
November - end of March
daily 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

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Brunico - Museo civico (Civic Museum) of Brunico
The museum was refounded in 1990 and reopened in 1995 in the former stables of the post office. The Civic Museum in Brunico had been first founded in 1912. During the fascistic period the museum was closed (1939-40) and most of the objects were brought to Bolzano. The new museum reobtained part of the artistic collection of the old Civic Museum, including sculptures and paintings of Michael and Friedrich Pacher. Also, the collection of modern graphics of local modern artists is also of great value for the museum. The museum has dedicated one section to the 'graphic and literature' of many modern writers and artists. 

Museo civico di Brunico
Via Bruder Willram, 1
39031 Brunico
Phone: +39/0474/553292 - Fax: +39/0474/410685
info@stadtmuseum-bruneck.it
www.stadtmuseum-bruneck.it

Opening times:
open all year
Tues-Fri 3 p.m.-6 p.m., Sat-Sun 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
July - September
Tues-Sun 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
August - open on Mondays

Brunico - Museo etnografico (Ethnographic Museum)
The ethnographic museum was founded in 1976 and it is one of the oldest provincial museums in Southtyrol. Houses of the middle class and of the lower class can be seen at the imposing residence Mair am Hof, and at the open museum, and also some primitive technical inventions from ancient times. In the civic museum you will have the possibility to explore the past through a socio-cultural aspect on a trail that leads through all of the main stages of life on farms, in the country side and in workshops.

Museo etnografico
Via Herzog Diet, 24
39031 Teodone
Phone:+39/0474/552087 - Fax:+39/0474/551764
museo-etnografico@provincia.bz.it
www.provincia.bz.it/volkskundemuseen

Opening times:
middle of April - end of October
Tues-Sat 9.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m.
Sun + public holidays 2 p.m.-6 p.m.

San Candido - Dolomythos
Presentation of the Dolomites, which represents living and cultural spave, through fossils, minerals, myths and legends.

San Candido - Dolomythos
Presentation of the Dolomites, which represents living and cultural spave, through fossils, minerals, myths and legends.

Dolomythos
Villa Wachtler
Via P. P. Rainer, 11
39038 San Candido
Phone:+39/0474/913255 - Fax:+39/0474/913092

Opening times:
open all year
Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
22nd July - 1st September
also open on Sundays 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

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San Candido - Museo della Collegiata di San Candido
This house which stands in the shade of the church of the San Candido Convent, is one of the oldest buildings in Upper Puster Valley. The museum, the archive and the library of the San Candido Brotherhood are situated in this building. The Dome`s treasury, the holy art of the church and a collection of manuscripts are the remains of the intellectual and spiritual work of the oldest brotherhood in Tyrol. Most of the precious objects are pieces of work by local artists who created them on the instructions of the canons or of the then land owners from San Candido.

Museo della Collegiata di San Candido
Via Atto, 3
39038 San Candido
Phone:+39/0474/913278

Opening times:
1st June - 15th October
Thur-Sat 5 p.m.-7 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
15th July - 31st August
Tues-Sat 10 a.m.-11 a.m., Tues 8 p.m.-10 p.m.

Villabassa - Museo del turismo of the Upper Puster Valley (Touristic Museum)
Villabassa has had a pioneer`s role, which started 150 years ago, in the development of tourism in the tyrolean region and in the Upper Puster Valley thanks to the train connections of Villabassa with many major cities. The museum is located in the Casa Wassermann House and it affords you the opportunity to get to know the story of tourism which was open only to the weill off, up to modern day tourism, with examples of the first touristic places (old hotels and guesthouses, numerous thermal baths) and the construction of the rail way in Puster Valley and the origins of alpineism in the region.

Touristic Museum in the upper Puster Valley
Casa Wassermann
Via Hans Wassermann 8
Phone:+39/0474/745136 - Fax: +39/0474/745283
info@niederdorf.it
 
Opening times:
1st July - 30th September 
Tues-Sun 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
1st December - 28th February, 1st May - 30th June
Fri, Sun 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
Sat 9 a.m.-12 p.m., 4 p.m.-7 p.m.

Campo Tures - Parish Museum Taufers
The Parish museum is located beside the parish church in Campo Tures. Back in the times of the nobles from Tures, the two storey building was already being used as a store room for the tens of collections that were divided between the lawyer of the Signori di Tures and the priest of the canon. In 1984 Dean Munter assembled a large number of pieces of art from the churches and chapels of Campo Tures in this store room. The objects on show are not real exhibition pieces of a museum since they are still used for lithurgical purposes. A visit to the museum finishes off with the arrival at the parish church, a late gothic master piece.

Museo parrocchiale Taufers
Via Parrocchia, 14
39032 Campo Tures
Phone:+39/0474/678060
free8558@dnet.it
 
Opening times:
1st June - 15th October
Sun 5 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
Sun, Thur 5 p.m.-6.30 p.m.
15th July - 31st August

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Sesto - Museum Rudolf Stolz
In two rooms, the museum of Sesto which was opened in 1969, shows mainly projects and sketches of many fresco paintings, water-colour paintings and graphical works of the famous southtyrolian painter Rudolf Stolz (1874-1960). Amongst his main works are 'danza della morte' (Dance of Death) in the cemetary in Sesto, and several fresco paintings on the arches of the cemetary. In honour of his pieces of work the Municipality of Sesto built a museum in the central square. The museum was planned by the painters son in law, the architect Erich Pattis. The painters daughters donated more than 160 of his pieces of work to the museum after his death.

Museo Rudolf Stolz
Moso, Via Dolomiti, 16
39030 Sesto
Phone:.0474/710521 - Fax.0474/710318

Opening times:
15th June - 1st October
Tues, Fri 4.30 p.m.-6.30 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
15th July - 1st September
Tues-Fri 4.30 p.m.-6.30 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Christmas - Easter
Wed, Fri 4.30 p.m.-6.30 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Museum Ladin - Ciastel de Tor
In 1996 the autonomous Povince of Bolzano bought the Tor Castel with the intention of opening up a provincial museum. The museum named 'Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor' is dedicated to the culture and to the history of the ladin ethnic group. The castle`s history brings us back to the 12th Century when the castle used to be the main court 'Thurn an der Gader'. Thanks to the museum, the story of the ladins of the Dolomites has, and indeed is, being spread: descendents of the antique roman population that used to live in this area are the oldest linguistic group out of the three linguistic groups in Southtyrol. With the help of multimedia the visitor can learn about the language, the culture and the history of the ladin population from the Dolomites. In the museum you can learn about archeology (the history of colonialization, 'Sotciastel', from the Rheats to the Ladins), history (earls, lawyers, subjects), the Dolomites (formation, discovery, exploration), the ladin language and identity (linguistic laboratory, craftwork), the economy (residential centre of the 'Viles', the Via Ferrata - iron path) and you can visit the observation point for ladin history ('Ladinoscope').

Castel Tor
Via Tor, 72
39030 San Martino in Badia
Phone:+39/0474/524020 - Fax:+39/0474/524263
info@museumladin.it
www.museumladin.it

Opening times:
24th March - 31st October
Tues-Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m.- 6 p.m.
1st December - 22nd March
Wed-Fri 2 p.m.- 6 p.m.

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