SCHOOL OFFERS
The Museum for Schools
Whether for students or teachers – the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology offers comprehensive educational programs about the Iceman and prehistory.
The offers are designed to adapt to different age groups, combining scientific content with practical and engaging teaching methods. You can find all our programs here – sorted by grade level.
RESERVATION OFFICE
Availability & Reservations
Easily plan your school visit online:
Using our booking system you can directly check which timeslots are available and request a reservation.
Guided tours: maximum of 25 students (+2 teachers). For larger groups, divide into subgroups and send an additional booking request.
Workshops: maximum of 12 students (+2 teachers) per time slot. Two simultaneous slots may be booked for up to 24 students.
Our team is happy to help with larger groups or special requests.
Email: info@iceman.it
MO–FR: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Children and pupils with special needs
In order to best meet their needs, we kindly ask you to inform us at the time of booking. The museum is free of architectural barriers and can also be visited with a wheelchair.
Our library
A rich collection of books for people of all ages, magazines, videos, CDs and teaching materials are available to address the themes present in the museum in class. Teachers and interested parties will naturally also find scientific publications and monographs on various aspects of archaeology, prehistory and museum education.
Books can be consulted in the museum library by appointment.
Opening hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 AM–1:00 PM / 2:00 PM–3:00 PM, Saturday 9:30 AM–12:00 PM.
A library card from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is required to borrow books.
Online Catalogue:
The collection is accessible through the online library catalogue of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
Information and appointment requests:
biblio@iceman.it, phone +39 0471 320123 (during the library’s opening hours).
The ideas we are inspired by
At the center of the person
Every person visits the museum differently. We want to respect this diversity and look at visitors as individuals with different interests, needs and abilities. We take their point of view into high consideration.
Slowness, experience
In this time of increasingly pressing and standardized stimuli and demands for performance, we want to learn to slow down and make room for silence, inspiration and emotion. We want to create a place where the quality of experience has priority over the quantity of information.
Long-term work
When you can have an “experience” in a museum, the effects last over time. Thoughts and images assimilated in the mind during the visit leave the space of the museum and re-emerge on the surface in our daily life, creating a relationship with what we have experienced.
Contact, dialogue, meeting
The museum is a place of encounter with ourselves, with other people and with objects. We want to encourage visitors to get in touch with what they find in the museum spaces, to ask their questions and to express their points of view. Dialogue is an integral part of learning and the museum experience.
Freedom and responsibility of the individual
We support the autonomy of our visitors. Each one contributes personally to the construction of the path with their own requests and experiences.
Objects of the past, modern life
The museum offers the unique opportunity to directly engage with the original finds and the stories they tell, placing them in relation to our present and our daily lives.