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Typewriter Museum Peter Mitterhofer
Partschins, Merano & Surroundings
Description
The museum offers an insight to the 100-year history of the typewriter, ranging from the first wooden typewriter invented by Peter Mitterhofer from Partschins/Parcines to the computer age. The museum documents the highly interesting history of the typewriter with more than 2,000 ...
The museum offers an insight to the 100-year history of the typewriter, ranging from the first wooden typewriter invented by Peter Mitterhofer from Partschins/Parcines to the computer age. The museum documents the highly interesting history of the typewriter with more than 2,000 exhibits. Among the exhibits are the first wooden models of the inventor Peter Mitterhofer from Partschins/Parcines, some of the most diverse and exceptional typewriter models from all around the world as well as models from the computer age. The collection also includes “Enigma”, the mysterious machine used to decrypt and encrypt communications during the Second World War by the Nazis.

April – December: every first Sunday of each month with free entry

Other detail

Price

Entrance

  • 7,00 € adults
  • 6,30 € seniors (aged 65+), groups of 10+ people (p.p.), owners of Touristcard, residents
  • 2,00 € pupils and teenagers (age >16), students
  • 15,00 € family card
  • free entrance for kids aged >6

free entrance for owners of museumobil Card or Museumcard

These are e.g. the MeranCard, or the AlgundCard, RittenCard or UltentalCard, just to name a few of the Tourist Cards that hotels provide their guests with. Besides the free use of buses and trains the hotels aquire with the Card also the entrance to our museum, so that by simply scanning the Card you can enter for free without paying anything extra.

Be welcome!

Guided tour (for groups of 10+ people, entrance included)
8,00 € adults
2,00 € pupils

3,00 € with museumobil Card

Audioguide
1,00 €