Ladin Museum – Tor Castle In the very heart of the Dolomites live more than 30,000 Dolomite Ladins whose identity is characterised mainly by two important features: the uniqueness of their language, which derives from popular Latin, and the extraordinary mountain landscape at the heart of the southern Alps. It is only thanks to the physical characteristics of this landscape that the Ladin language has survived today. It is the eldest of all languages spoken in this region and is restricted by the Italian and the German cultural and linguistic areas that surround it. The way through the museum focuses on some significant aspects of the present and past lives of the Dolomite Ladins, highlighting the important influences of cross-regional events on the lives of the population and pinpointing the existing interrelations between landscape forms and lifestyles.
Our tips for rainy days
Museum Ladin Ciastel de Tor
Museum Ladin Ursus ladinicus
The museum Ursus ladinicus is made by three floors: at the first floor there is the cash desk and museum shop.
The upper floor starts with the evolutionary history of the Dolomites, with a display of the finest and most significant fossils from the area around San Cassiano.
The exhibition continues with the origins, discovery and excavation of the Conturines cave, using original exhibits to describe every aspect of the cave bear and its habitat.
In the basement there is “the bear’s cave”, a reconstruction of parts of the Conturines cave, complete with a detailed reproduction of a sleeping cave bear.
*By car
- Coming from Innsbruck: take the A13 and the A22 toll motorway and exit at Bressanone/Brixen, following the signs to Brunico/Bruneck along the Val Pusteria/Pustertal road as far as S. Lorenzo/St. Lorenzen. Follow the signs to Val Badia/Gadertal
- Coming from Verona – Bolzano: take the A22, exit at Bressanone/Brixen and continue as above
*By train
The nearest train stations are:
- Brunico – 37 km
- Bolzano (via Passo Gardena) – 72 km (via Brunico) – 100 km
- Connection train station – Alta Badia by the local bus SAD: www.sii.bz.it
*By air
- Innsbruck – 130 km
- Munich – 330 km
- Venice Treviso / Venice Marco Polo – 180 km / 200 km
- Verona – 213 km
- Milan Bergamo / Milan Malpensa – 310 km / 400 km
- Information airport transfer: www.altoadigebus.com – www.cortinaexpress.it
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South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology – Ötzi
Price:
- Adults 9,00 €
- Children under 6 years free
- Discount ticket* 7,00 €
- With museum card or museummobil card free
- Family ticket: 2 adults with children under 16 years 18,00 €
- “Mini” family ticket: 1 adult with children under 16 years 9,00 €
- School class: per person 1,50 €
* Schoolchildren, students and apprentices under the age of 27, seniors over 65, disabled people, groups from 20 people upwards
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Touriseum – South Tyrol Museum of Tourism
Please note: Updated information on the available tickets is provided on the Garden’s official website, at www.trauttmansdorff.it. Online tickets (valid on the same day) and vouchers are available at https://trauttmansdorff.midaticket.it/Event/10/Dates.
Admission Prices
- Adults 15.00 €
- Family Pass (2 adults with children under 18) 32.00 €
- Children (under 6): FREE
- Children and juniors (under 18) students (up to 28), visitors with disabilities 12,00 €
- Seniors (over 65) 13.00 €
- Groups of 15 or more (per person): 12.00 €
- School classes (per student; only with advance reservation): 4.00 €
- Late-Autumn Ticket (3.11. to 15.11., children under 18 free): 8,50 €
- Also available: Season Pass, Mini Season Pass and South Tyrol Experience Packages. Valid ID must be shown in order to receive discounted prices. Pets are not allowed.
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South Tyrolean Folklore Museum
From West: Brenner Motorway A22 – exit Bressanone/Val Pusteria. Take road SS49 direction Bruneck/Brunico (approx. 28 km).From East: Take the road from Lienz/Eastern Tyrol to Bruneck/Brunico (approx. 73 km). The museum is located in the village Dietenheim/Teodone.
Prices
- Adults: 9,00 €
- Groups from 15 people upwards, seniors from 65 years up, students up to 27 years, teenagers from 16 years up, disabled people: 6,70 €
- Pupils in school classes: 1,50 €
- Family card (2 adults with children up to 16 years): 18,00 €
- Family card “mini” (1 adult with children up to 16 years): 9,00 €
- Guided tour for school classes: 40,00 €
- Guided tour for groups: 50,00 €
- Adults with HOLIDAYPASS Premium Bruneck or HOLIDAYPASS Premium Antholzertal: 7,20 €
- With Museumcard or museumobil card, ICOM-Card: free
Messner Mountain Museum Firmian
History:
Castle Sigmundskron was called in the first historical mentions about 945 “Formicaria”. In 1027 the German emperor gave the dukedom of Trento as well as the county to Bolzano to the bishop of Trento. In this manner the building went over in his possession and was used from now on as a seat of the Amtsmänner responsible for this territory and, moreover, still for high court meetings.
An enlargement of the castle in 12. and 13. Therefore, Jhd. became necessary. Very pleasantly for the rulers of the area was the control of the navigation on Eisack and Etsch. The only entrance of Bolzano to Eppan could be closed up to the construction of the first bridge about 1200 easily. About 1473 the castle went over in the possession of Sigmund to the coin empires, princes of Tyrol. The lover of nice castles allowed to develop the arrangement immediately. As his most splendid construction the duke called this “castle Sigmundskron”.
However, soon afterwards Sigmund gets in financial difficulties. He must pledge his work, the castle slowly goes to ruin, because it is also not inhabited any more constantly. 1957: The next important event which takes place within these walls is the national rally against “Verwelschungsbestrebungen” (lot of Trento), i.e. against the disregard of the “Paris contract” about 1957.
In 1976 an innkeeper’s family raised for the first time the courage to renovate partially the castle to open the guest company in these romantic surroundings of course also at the same time. In 2006 The sacristan Mountain of museum of Firmian in the castle Sigmundskron/Firmian is opened.
Architectural style: The castle is built mainly in the highly medieval style. The slender donjon in the untercastle shows Late-Gothic rebuildings. From the 13th century is the residential tower with round arch door as well as round arch windows. One recognises two gun turrets by the up to 5-m-thick curtain wall in the upper precastle, among the rest, moreover, you find a living – and economic building in the court (the place of the today’s restaurant). Specific features: Highly – and untercastle are unambiguously separated by a rock formation, a natural barrier which one often does not find thus. Duke Sigmund made the castle by stonecutters decorate, it had to go nicest in his collection. The different dimensions of the loopholes also do not correspond to the norm of that time.
Admission:
- Adult € 12,00
- Children aged 6 – 14 € 4,00
- Students € 10,00
- Senior citizens (65 and above) € 10,00
- Family ticket € 26,00
- Groups (15 people or more) € 10,00/person
- School classes € 4,00/person
- People with disabilities € 10,00
- with Geo-Card 2 tickets for the price of 1
- with museumobilcard free
Trostburg Castle in Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck
Information and reservation for groups, tel. 0471 654 401.
Prices:
- Normal: 8,00 €/person
- Students,Retired people, groups: 6,00 €/person (over 65 years)
- Children (6-14 years): 5,00 €/person
- Groups of children: 3,50 €/person
Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Admission fees
- Euro 7,00 adults
- Euro 3,50 reduced (students, over 60, Museumscard, Tourist Card, FAI, Kulturpass etc.)
Free admission
- Children up to 18 years
- Students of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Friends of Museion, ICOM, MuseumMobilCard
Prösels Castel
Prösels Castle was built in 1200 by the masters of Völs, the noble servers of the bishop of Brixen. In the early 16th century, the head of the provincial government, Leonhard von Völs, turned the castle into a Renaissance residence. The castle as it looks today is almost entirely the work of Leonhard von Völs. In the year 1981, the company KURATORIUM SCHLOSS PRÖSELS Ltd. purchased the castle.
Discover the Rittersaal, the Pfeilersaal, Kaminzimmer ,the Castle chapel and many other rooms in the Renaissance castle on a guided tour. Special programmes are available for school groups and families.
Castle Tours:
Closed on saturdays
- May- 11.00 am | 2.00 pm | 3.00 pm
- June – 11.00 am | 2.00 pm | 3.00 pm | 4pm
- July – 11.00-12.30 am (every half an hour) & 1.00-4.30 pm (every half an hour)
- August – 11.00-12.30 am (every half an hour) & 1.00-4.30 pm (every half an hour)
- September – 11.00 am | 2.00 pm | 3.00 pm | 4.00 pm
- October – 11.00 am | 2.00 pm | 3.00 pm
Fees:
- Adults 9,00€
- Children (6-14 years) 5,00€
- Groups (per person) 6,00€
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Gherdëina Museum
A two-storey building in the centre of Ortisei offers an all-inclusive view of local wood-carving handicraft, archaeology, geology and life-style. Discover the evolution of Val Gardena, where the earliest human settlements date back to more than 10,000 years ago. 280 million year-old plants and sea creatures were found in the valley, including the extraordinary Ichthyosaur fossil found in Seceda. The museum also houses a collection of ancient wooden toys and, since 2004, has displayed the art legacy left by Luis Trenker, an acclaimed local mountaineer, actor and mountain film director. Valuable items, such as the painted cloth from San Giacomo, which was used to cover the Cross during Lent, and the Sëurasas summit cross are included in the museum’s collection. A multi-media exhibition shows a late Medieval bedroom from Bierjun farm which features rare red chalk drawings dating back to 1490.
The big “farm map” shows the currently existing sites of rural architecture in Val Gardena.
Categories: Geology, Ladinia, Animals, Minerals, Archaelogy, Sacred art, Wood-carving, Farmer, Baroque, Butterflies, culture, Cribs, Toys, Middle Ages, Etnography
closed 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January
Admission
- 8,00 € Adults
- 6,00 € discounts (65 years +, groups over 12 persons, visitors with disabilities)
- 16,00 € family card
- 2,50 € students (under 26)
Free
- Children and teenager until 18 years
- Tutors and attendants of groups and scholars
- Teachers preparing their visit to the museum
- Members of the Museum
- Members of the Union di Ladins de Gherdeina
- Media
Discounts
- Members of ICOM (International Council of Museums)
- Proprietary “Kulturpass”
- Members of “Val Gardena Active”
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