Press releases

Starting immediately children at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology can use their very own audio guide.

Two classes from Bolzano learned how to establish degrees of kinship between themselves and population groups from around the world and Ötzi or the Neanderthals.

New special exhibition of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology from April 2nd to November 17th, 2019.

New publication about care and treatment in the Tyrolean Iceman.

Lack of fresh supplies of this all-round chert material compelled the Iceman to exploit the substance and functionality of his lithic tools to their absolute limits.

Ötzi the Iceman, who was probably 46 years old when he died, had three areas of calcification in his coronary vessels.

The five-member Richter family, from Lindau on Lake Constance, are the 5 millionth visitors to have purchased tickets for the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology since its opening on 28 March 1998.

March 28, 2018 The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology will celebrate his 20th anniversary. Here, you can find press information for your personal research.

Finding out about the origin of the copper was a complete surprise, as up till now archaeologists had assumed that the copper used in the Alpine region came from Alpine deposits or the Balkan region.

Scientists present the latest findings at an International Mummy Congress. The copper used to make Ötzi’s axe blade did not come from the Alpine region as had previously been supposed, but from ore mined in southern Tuscany.