The archeological museum in Bozen

On Ötzi’s traces in the museum

1991 a German couple made a mountain tour on the glaciers in Schnalstal Valley. The weather was good, it was warm and they came good forward. But suddenly they saw something in the melting snow: a mummified body.

What sounds like a thriller is in fact the perhaps most sensational stone-age find of the last decades. ‘cause the mummy of the ice was no one less then Ötzi, the now worldwide known Ötzi. He lay in the ice for over 5000 years and he is perfectly conserved as well as the other finds: a cloat, hay-shoes and bearskin-cap and so one. Long lasting analysis result that Ötzi was from Eisacktal Valley and that he worked in the copper-manufacture.

All in all the analysis lasted 7 years and only in 1998 he was brought in the archeological museum to Bozen. There culture-fans can learn more about the stone-age and the history of South Tyrol till 800 AD.

Business hours:

Tuesday-Sunday: 10 am -6 pm
Closed Mundays
Opened at business hours

Address:

Museumstraße 43
I-39100 BOZEN
Tel. 0039/0471/320100
Fax 0039/0471/320122
e-mail: museum(at)iceman.it

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