Museums and art galleries

The fully preserved fortress to defend the southern border of Tyrol was built around 1840 and is open to the public.

The castle was built at the beginning of the 14th century and first mentioned in 1325. On the upper floors there is a museum.

The museum displays furniture, sculptures, paintings, from medieval sacred art to the development of alpine landscape painting, famous sculptors, contemporary art and photography.  

The Museum Carnuntinum is Austria’s largest Roman museum. Built in the style of a Roman country villa, the elegant structure houses the treasures of more than 400 years of Roman life in Carnuntum (today’s Petronell). The Carnuntum city have been reconstructed in its historical context: a citizen’s house, a splendid city mansion and public baths. … Read more » “Carnuntinum Museum”

The Museum shows the rural work, history culture of the region and the village.    

Altfinstermünz castle was the court for the Lower Engadine, Nauders and Pfunds region from the 9th to the 11th century. Altfinstermünz can be reached today from different sides, one way leads from the Lower Engadine, a second way led already in Roman times to Altfinstermünz, the Via Claudia Augusta.  

The medieval castle and its museum show the history and culture of the region.  

In the Gurgltal, which stretches from the Fernpass to the district capital Imst, and in its side valleys, mining areas were developed about 500 years ago. The open-air museum shows this history.

The open-air park (Freilichtpark) and the Ötzi village present the life of 5,000 years ago, living and working in the Stone Age.  

The Museum (Musée Historique) tells the city’s history from the Stone Age to the present days. A theme path through the museum gives a deeper perspective of the city’s Roman, Celt, Frank) past and the old local lifestyles.