Museums in Tures and Aurina Valleys

Parish Museum Taufers at Campo Tures
The Parish museum is located beside the parish church in Campo Tures. Back in the times of the nobles from Tures, the two storey building was already being used as a store room for the tens of collections that were divided between the lawyer of the Signori di Tures and the priest of the canon. In 1984 Dean Munter assembled a large number of pieces of art from the churches and chapels of Campo Tures in this store room. The objects on show are not real exhibition pieces of a museum since they are still used for liturgical purposes. A visit to the museum finishes off with the arrival at the parish church, a late gothic master piece.
Information: Tel. +39 0474 678060

Mineral Museum at Aurina Valley
Numerous samples of minerals from the Alti Tauri mountains, carefully collected by Josef Kirchler over the last few decades, provide evidence of how the Alps were formed. The more than 750 exposed minerals were found in the Zillertal Alps and in the Alti Tauri mountains:
rock crystals represent the ideal crystal and their transparence is a reminder of the eternal ice on the highest peaks, of feldspars, sparkles, violet amethyst, fluorides, apathetic diamonds, emeralds and titanits, which enchant every observer by their deep green.
Amongst the biggest smoked quartz in South Tyrol, the famous rock crystal 'ritorto' from the Predoi mine can be found.
Information: Tel. +39 0474 652145

Museum of the manger "Maranatha" at Lutago
You will experience an amazing wandering through the world of manger. The representations range from the traditional manger from Tyrol through the ancient oriental nativity place to the most recent representations of modern art. You will admire the life-size sculptures made of wood and the art of the traditional carving accompanied by atmospheric light and sound.
Information: Tel. +39 0474 671682 - e-mail - homepage

Nature-park house and museum Rieserferner-Ahrn at Campo di Tures
The Nature-park house fits in with the motto of the nature park “The limits of the nature and the limits of man“. Already at the entrance a film out of the bird’s-eye view imparts to the visitor first unused impressions of the area. A three-dimensional relief multimedially gives information about mountains, paths, huts, lakes and waterfalls. Through the time pendulum you can experience the history of the formation of the mountains whose structure can be found out through a kind of stone puzzle. Altitude grades until over 3,000 m, the retreat of the glacier, minerals, life-seized hand-carved birds of prey, undemanding lichen and the characteristic dialect of the valley let amaze, observe and admire. Visitor’s information systems give info about nature and landscape as well as the history of development of the nature park region. For kids there are fairy tales and legends of past times.
In the Natur-park house the visitor experiences space and time with all the beauties and limits of the nature park..
Information: Tel. +39 0474 677546