Location: Innsbruck
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The 10 Best Museums in Innsbruck, Austrian Alps
Coveted by empires and republics throughout its history, Innsbruck was the seat of the imperial court of Maximilian I by the end of the 15th century. Trams make getting around the city quick, efficient and cheap. Explore the Tyrolean capital's history at Archduke Ferdinand II's 10th-century Schloss Ambras, the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum, the grand 15th-century Imperial Palace and Maximilian I's famous Golden Roof. One of Europe's most idyllic cities, Innsbruck is nestled in the heart of the Alps.
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1. Museum of Anatomy
2. Tyrolean Folk Art Museum
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4.5 based on 386 reviews
Reviewed By Basheer-Alkhatib - Altenberg bei Linz, Austria
Good to be in the museum where takes you to old Tirol and Austria history. It contains very precious pieces and collection from the Tiroler Heritage collection which is so worth the visit. Very much recommended. it is one of the oldest in Europe.
3. Schloss Ambras Innsbruck
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4.5 based on 1,157 reviews
Due to the current regulation to contain the pandemic, the museums of the KHM Museum Association will remain closed until 23th March 2021! The wonderful world of the Renaissance The provincial sovereign of Tyrol, Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-95), son of Emperor Ferdinand l, ordered that the mediaeval fortress at Ambras be turned into a Renaissance castle for his wife Philippine Welser. He also commissioned the building of a separately designed museum complex to house his world-famous collections. Constructed according to the most advanced ideas of its time, it is an eminent precursor of our modern-day museums and has been preserved at its original site to this day. The armouries comprise rare examples of 15th century jousting armour from the collections of Emperor Maximilian I, suits of armour of famous 16th century commanders, the Archduke’s private armour, the armour of the court of Innsbruck, and weapons from the Thirty Years’ War.
Reviewed By 260flaviob
This castle is one of the most beautiful we have seen on our tour in Austria. From Innsbruck you can get there after about twenty minutes by bus (we took a Hop on / Hop off, very comfortable and included in the Innsbruck Card). The Castle is surrounded by greenery and has a very well kept garden. There are two main buildings to visit, one connected to the entrance (with spectacular weapons and armor) and the actual Castle, to be reached with a short walk. The castle is impressive and was bought by the Archduke Ferdinand II, a true patron of the time. In the current exhibition, the organizers have tried to recreate the different rooms as they had been wanted by the Archduke: the Chamber of Art and Wonders (some even not politically correct by our current standards), the Chamber of Armor and the Antiquarium. In the upper castle there are houses as they were at the time of Ferdinando. The most sumptuous setting in the building is the Sala Spagnola, a 43 meter long banquet hall with frescoed walls and trompe l’oeil. Magnificent. There is also a section dedicated to the Habsburg portraits with over 200 portraits, made by famous artists like Cranach, Tiziano, van Dyck and Diego Velásquez. We went there on a very hot August day and at the end of the tour it was beautiful and very romantic to eat a sandwich sitting on a bench in the shade of the secular trees of the garden.
4. Tirol Panorama
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4.5 based on 428 reviews
A wide-angle view of history: this new, modern museum provides an impressive survey of Tirol’s turbulent history and its effect on the country and its people. The centrepiece of the museum is the gigantic panoramic painting known as the “Riesenrundgemälde”.
5. Panorama and kaiserjager museum
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4.5 based on 66 reviews
Reviewed By cliveb669
Lovely views from here, a lot to see, and a church, and other interesting memorials, statues and also you can reach the Olympic ski jump from here. You can get here on the sightseer, hop on hop off bus.
6. AUDIOVERSUM - ScienceCenter
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4.5 based on 201 reviews
AUDIOVERSUM is the interactive museum in Innsbruck all about the captivating worlds of listening and wondering. As a ScienceCenter it fascinates visitors from across Austria and beyond with its combination of medicine, technology, education and art and is therefore unique in Europe. The main exhibition “Adventure Hearing”, with its multimedia installations invites visitors to join in and sharpen their senses: by navigating through the ear in 3D, by acoustically hunting invisible birds and by touching oversized sensory cells, visitors explore the manifold functions of hearing. The initiator of the only ScienceCenter in Tyrol is MED-EL, the world's leading supplier of implantable hearing systems. The exhibition concept is extended with regularly changing special exhibitions. Thus, a visit to the Audioversum is always a new experience.
Reviewed By 218TonyL - Vienna, Austria
Came here with a young family on a rainy afternoon. Great experience with fun interactive activities.
7. Kunstraum Innsbruck
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Kunstraum Innsbruck has opened its doors in 1996 as a non-profit contemporary art association. The goal of the KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK is to enable the encounters with the phenomenon of contemporary art, in the form of exhibitions, lectures, discussions, artist talks, readings and concerts. We exhibited artists like: Louise Bourgoise, Jonathan Meese, Christoph Schlingensief, Gregor Schneider, Rosa Loy, Joyce Pensato, Alex Israel, Betty Tompkins, David Ostrowski, Jorinde Voigt, Christian Marclay, Mohau Modisakeng, Danh Vo, Franz West, Tobias Rehberger and many more.
8. The Golden Roof (Goldenes Dachl)
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4.0 based on 2,903 reviews
This famous balcony in Innsbruck's historic neighborhood was constructed out of gold to honor the marriage of Maximilian I and his wife.
Reviewed By Brittany_11_10 - Los Angeles, United States
The Old Town of Innsbruck is quaint and beautiful, and it's especially wonderful from late November to late December when it transforms into a Christmas market. The best part of the Golden Roof during this time is that musicians will come out to the balcony and play while everyone is enjoying gluhwein, currywurst, chocolate and whatever else they choose to indulge in.
9. Grassmayr Glockenmuseum Glockengiesserei
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4.0 based on 154 reviews
A 400-year old bell foundry and museum of bell-making.
Reviewed By Soccca - Tolmin, Slovenia
After seeing lots of “usual” museums (not only those in Innsbruck) this bell museum was really something extraordinary. We had the Innsbruck Card which covered also this museum, so we didn’t have to pay the admission fee. We walked around museum on our own. There is a short video presentation about making bells and after that you can try some tests about the sounds of different bells. A small, but a wonderful museum!
10. Tyrolean Provincial Museum (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum)
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4.0 based on 109 reviews
Reviewed By periandro - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
The Museum building is a solid and beautiful one with a unique and stunning façade in Florentine renaissance style having a superb sculptural group on the balustrade enclosing the flat roof on the top. A smaller balustrade is also over the porch preceeding the entrance door around a terrace supported by six almost cylindrical columns with doric capitals. It's a very nice and very attractive façade in front of which one feels full of emotion. The Museum itself is very interesting. It comprises several collections on divers themes. There it's possible to observe items appertaining to archaeology, art and art history as well as other subjects. Several music instruments are also on display at the Museum, some of them made by the famous Tyrolean violin maker Jakob Stainer. The visit to that Museum is an excellent way to learn about cultural history of Tyrol from prehistory to the present time. Most of items there exhibited are art works belonging to all styles having determined the art tendencies. The art collection can be deemed a very important one. It includes paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures and miniatures dating back to the Middle Ages until the modern period. The relevant paintings are mostly by Austrian, Dutch and German artists. The fantastic collection of Dutch paintings, for instance, includes works by Rembrant and Breughel. Among those by German painters maybe those by Lucas Cranach ought to be outlined. On the day I visited the Museum, August 13th,2019 there was a temporaty exhibition of paintings by Otto Dix and Albin Egger-Lienz. The paintings concerned call up the horrors of the First World War as per the painters' own experiences. Each one of those painters found his own path to striking formulation of the subjects of war, which could be clearly observed in that exhibition. By all means, the Museum should be visited while in the marvellous city of Innsbruck. It's an essential way to have an insight on many aspects regarding the Tyrol past and likewise to contemplate many superb art works concerning some other domains.
