Calendar
This is where you will find what is going on at the archeoParc and when. Please note that some activities take place daily others only on single days. We reserve the right to make changes in the program without notice. For example, the archery range and the canoes stop will be closed in the event of inclement weather.
You want to participate on the daily acivities in group? Read here how to manage it: Useful information for groups.
Daily
Daily | 11:00-16:00, every full hour
Making fire like Ötzi in the Villandershouse
A museum educator shows how Ötzi made fire with the assistance of pyrite, flint, and tinder fungus.no reservation required | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 20 min
Daily | 11:30-16:30
Baking bread over the camp fire
Ötzi and his contemporaries ate small flatbreads. They were baked in a small domed oven made of clay. A copy of such an over has been built at the archeoParc. We wind the dough around a stick and then bake the bread over the hot coals.no reservation required | begins several times a day | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 20 min
Daily | 11:30-16:30
Grinding Flour on the Copper Age Stone Mill
We humans have been cultivating grain in Europe for six thousand years. Ötzi himself ate barley at one of his last meals. We grind wheat kernels into flour on a Copper Age stone mill.no reservation required | begins several times a day | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 10 min
Daily | starts at 11:00, last start 16:00
Bow and Arrow on the Archery Range
On the archery range we try to shoot with a wooden longbow similar to the one found with Ötzi. After a short introduction by our museum educators we draw the bow and aim on the targets and animals in 3D.no reservation required | begins several times a day | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 30 min
Daily | starts at 11:30, last start 15:30
Paddling a Dug out at the Canoe Stop
A dug out is a wooden canoe made from a singel tree trunk. People used dugouts already 9.000 years ago. Accompanied by a member of the museumstaff you can try to paddle on the watercourse through the open-air area.
no reservation required | begins several times a day | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 10 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Advanced visitors workshop on Stone Age cuisine
Studies on the glacier mummy have informed us of Ötzi’s last meals. From the remains of food in pots that came to light in archaeological digs, the entire meal plans of prehistory can be reconstructed. Today, we can try out ourselves what it is like to cook in a large ceramic pot over an open fire. With Simone Bacher, museum educator.
No registration required | +5 Euro (material kit) | Course 2 | House Arbon-Bleiche 3 | Duration: approx. 120 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Linden weaving and cow sinews”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition on animal and plant fiber materials and their use by Ötzi. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour „How Ötzi got his Name“
Just a few days after the discovery of the mummy up at the Giogo di Tisa ridge some smart journalists from Vienna created the name “Ötzi”. All about the discovery and the effect of the finding tells you Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator in this thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “The discovery of Ötzi”.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Demonstration on Copper Age metal smelting
Ötzi carried with him an axe with a blade made from nearly pure copper. We replicated the smelting of this blade using the so-called “lost wax” process, one of the processes that Ötzi may have been able to apply for the production of his copper blade. With Ernst Gamper, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Houses Alleshausen-Grundwiesen | Course 2 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Demonstration on preparing clay for pottery
It takes a long time from the digging of the clay to the ceramic pot. How to clean the clay? How to prepare the material for the firing? These and more questions will answer Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Canoe stop | Course 3 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Ötzi, a Chieftain?!”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” concerning the question of what social status Ötzi had in his society. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “The power of fire”
How was fire made during the time of Ötzi, what did he need to do so, and why was it of such great importance? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Demonstration on Copper Age metal smelting
Ötzi carried with him an axe with a blade made from nearly pure copper. We replicated the smelting of this blade using the so-called “lost wax” process, one of the processes that Ötzi may have been able to apply for the production of his copper blade. With Ernst Gamper, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Houses Alleshausen-Grundwiesen | Course 2 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Leatherworking workshop (pouches)
The art of tanning has been known to man since the Stone Age. Through this process, animal skins and furs are preserved and softened so that they can be further processed into clothing, tents, and ceilings. Ötzi’s clothing was also made from tanned leather. Make a little pouch yourself the Stone Age way from deer leather. To do so, you will have at your disposal flint blades, plant fibers, and awls made from deer antlers. Our museum educators will show you each processing step.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Leatherworking workshop (pouches)
The art of tanning has been known to man since the Stone Age. Through this process, animal skins and furs are preserved and softened so that they can be further processed into clothing, tents, and ceilings. Ötzi’s clothing was also made from tanned leather. Make a little pouch yourself the Stone Age way from deer leather. To do so, you will have at your disposal flint blades, plant fibers, and awls made from deer antlers. Our museum educators will show you each processing step.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Leatherworking workshop (pouches)
The art of tanning has been known to man since the Stone Age. Through this process, animal skins and furs are preserved and softened so that they can be further processed into clothing, tents, and ceilings. Ötzi’s clothing was also made from tanned leather. Make a little pouch yourself the Stone Age way from deer leather. To do so, you will have at your disposal flint blades, plant fibers, and awls made from deer antlers. Our museum educators will show you each processing step.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Neolithic huts”
Thematic tour on the two Neolithic house reconstructions of the group Houses Alpine Valleys (Villanders-Plunacker and Villanuova sul Clisi Monte Covolo) in the open air area with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Leatherworking workshop (pouches)
The art of tanning has been known to man since the Stone Age. Through this process, animal skins and furs are preserved and softened so that they can be further processed into clothing, tents, and ceilings. Ötzi’s clothing was also made from tanned leather. Make a little pouch yourself the Stone Age way from deer leather. To do so, you will have at your disposal flint blades, plant fibers, and awls made from deer antlers. Our museum educators will show you each processing step.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Making pearls out of plant pits workshop
The blossoms are white, and in the autumn it bears dark blue fruit: the sloe bush. Archaeologists found a pit from this plant with Ötzi. We will use the fact that it was desired at his time to make pearls out of the pits to show you how it is done. Who knows, perhaps you are one of our patient visitors who will make several pearls and then fashion a “Copper Age necklace” out of them?
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Demonstration on prehistoric birch bark tar making
On Ötzi’s arrows and on his axe, a hot adhesive was used which was produced from birch bark. We demonstrate how to obtain the so-called “birch bark tar” in a two pot process, a technique that Ötzi also could have used. With Ernst Gamper, education department.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Fish pond | Course 3 | Duration: approx. 60 min
Copper working workshop
Ötzi carried with him an ax with a copper blade. You can hammer, forge, and sharpen a copper wire into a piece of jewelry that could also have been worn at the time.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60min
Copper working workshop
Ötzi carried with him an ax with a copper blade. You can hammer, forge, and sharpen a copper wire into a piece of jewelry that could also have been worn at the time.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60min
Copper working workshop
Ötzi carried with him an ax with a copper blade. You can hammer, forge, and sharpen a copper wire into a piece of jewelry that could also have been worn at the time.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60min
Guided tour „How Ötzi got his Name“
Just a few days after the discovery of the mummy up at the Giogo di Tisa ridge some smart journalists from Vienna created the name “Ötzi”. All about the discovery and the effect of the finding tells you Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator in this thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “The discovery of Ötzi”.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Copper working workshop
Ötzi carried with him an ax with a copper blade. You can hammer, forge, and sharpen a copper wire into a piece of jewelry that could also have been worn at the time.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60min
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Demonstration on Copper Age metal smelting
Ötzi carried with him an axe with a blade made from nearly pure copper. We replicated the smelting of this blade using the so-called “lost wax” process, one of the processes that Ötzi may have been able to apply for the production of his copper blade. With Ernst Gamper, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Houses Alleshausen-Grundwiesen | Course 2 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Clay working workshop (globular flute)
In different diggings were found rests of globular flutes made of clay. We invite you to make a similar instrument and show you the right technique to play it.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Clay working workshop (globular flute)
In different diggings were found rests of globular flutes made of clay. We invite you to make a similar instrument and show you the right technique to play it.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Clay working workshop (globular flute)
In different diggings were found rests of globular flutes made of clay. We invite you to make a similar instrument and show you the right technique to play it.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Guided tour “Neolithic huts”
Thematic tour on the two Neolithic house reconstructions of the group Houses Alpine Valleys (Villanders-Plunacker and Villanuova sul Clisi Monte Covolo) in the open air area with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Clay working workshop (globular flute)
In different diggings were found rests of globular flutes made of clay. We invite you to make a similar instrument and show you the right technique to play it.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “The power of fire”
How was fire made during the time of Ötzi, what did he need to do so, and why was it of such great importance? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Advanced visitors workshop on Stone Age cuisine
Studies on the glacier mummy have informed us of Ötzi’s last meals. From the remains of food in pots that came to light in archaeological digs, the entire meal plans of prehistory can be reconstructed. Today, we can try out ourselves what it is like to cook in a large ceramic pot over an open fire. With Simone Bacher, museum educator.
No registration required | +5 Euro (material kit) | Course 2 | House Arbon-Bleiche 3 | Duration: approx. 120 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Ötzi, a Chieftain?!”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” concerning the question of what social status Ötzi had in his society. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Linden weaving and cow sinews”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition on animal and plant fiber materials and their use by Ötzi. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Demonstration on Copper Age metal smelting
Ötzi carried with him an axe with a blade made from nearly pure copper. We replicated the smelting of this blade using the so-called “lost wax” process, one of the processes that Ötzi may have been able to apply for the production of his copper blade. With Ernst Gamper, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Houses Alleshausen-Grundwiesen | Course 2 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Handweaving workshop (bracelet)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a bracelet in plain weave out of yarn.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Deer antler working workshop (Pendant)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a pendant the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Sunday project „fell a tree“
How did the prehistoric people manage to fell a tree? The education team is looking forward for little and grown-up helpers to do some woodwork on four Sundays in September.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Twined weaving workshop (Pad)
La stuoia di Ötzi e il fodero del suo pugnale erano confezionati con fibre vegetali ritorte e intrecciate. Sperimentate anche voi questa tecnica tessile, probabilmente la più antica della storia, per creare un piccolo tappetino di giunchi e rafia.
Non occorre la prenotazione | Dalle ore 11:30, ogni ora, ultimo inizio turno un’ora prima della chiusura serale dell’area all’aperto | Incluso nel biglietto d’ingresso | Percorso 2 | Area laboratoriale | Durata: ca. 40 mi
Guided tour “Neolithic huts”
Thematic tour on the two Neolithic house reconstructions of the group Houses Alpine Valleys (Villanders-Plunacker and Villanuova sul Clisi Monte Covolo) in the open air area with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Twined weaving workshop (Pad)
La stuoia di Ötzi e il fodero del suo pugnale erano confezionati con fibre vegetali ritorte e intrecciate. Sperimentate anche voi questa tecnica tessile, probabilmente la più antica della storia, per creare un piccolo tappetino di giunchi e rafia.
Non occorre la prenotazione | Dalle ore 11:30, ogni ora, ultimo inizio turno un’ora prima della chiusura serale dell’area all’aperto | Incluso nel biglietto d’ingresso | Percorso 2 | Area laboratoriale | Durata: ca. 40 mi
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour with Simon Messner
Along with Simon, son of the well-known Messner family and mountain guide Robert, the tour will lead over the Val Senales glacier to the site where Ötzi was discovered.
Further information and booking
Twined weaving workshop (Pad)
La stuoia di Ötzi e il fodero del suo pugnale erano confezionati con fibre vegetali ritorte e intrecciate. Sperimentate anche voi questa tecnica tessile, probabilmente la più antica della storia, per creare un piccolo tappetino di giunchi e rafia.
Non occorre la prenotazione | Dalle ore 11:30, ogni ora, ultimo inizio turno un’ora prima della chiusura serale dell’area all’aperto | Incluso nel biglietto d’ingresso | Percorso 2 | Area laboratoriale | Durata: ca. 40 mi
Demonstration on prehistoric meet drying
Scientists found dried meat preserved in in the stomach of the Iceman. How did prehistoric people dry meat? Perhaps by laying slices of meat out in the sun or in the heat of a slow burning fire.
Philipp Schraut, museum educator, presents prehistoric food preservation methods and shows meet drying over fire.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Course 3 | Main fire place | Duration: approx. 45 min
Twined weaving workshop (Pad)
La stuoia di Ötzi e il fodero del suo pugnale erano confezionati con fibre vegetali ritorte e intrecciate. Sperimentate anche voi questa tecnica tessile, probabilmente la più antica della storia, per creare un piccolo tappetino di giunchi e rafia.
Non occorre la prenotazione | Dalle ore 11:30, ogni ora, ultimo inizio turno un’ora prima della chiusura serale dell’area all’aperto | Incluso nel biglietto d’ingresso | Percorso 2 | Area laboratoriale | Durata: ca. 40 mi
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Longnight at archeoParc (Korrnrliadr)
Bonfire, drinks and music – How would you like to end the day? Sitting around the campfire? Cool drinks will be supplied by the archeoParc cafeteria team, while the fitting music will be provided by three passionate musicians from the upper Val Venosta valley: They are playing and singing self-composed songs in local dialect. These are telling stories of the old time, of travelling people from Val Venosta, called the Karrner. Therefore the name of these songs in local dialect is is “Korrnrliadr” (Karrner songs).
Ernst Thoma – guitar, voice
Martha Rauner Stecher – voice
Hannes Ortler – clarinet, melodica, flute, ocarina
no registration required | free admission | course 3| in case of inclement weather inside the visitors center | event sponsored by the Tourist association Valley Val Senales | doors open at 19:00
Bullroarers making workshop
Flat oval objects made from wood or bone that are swung through the air on a cord are called “bullroarers”. The noise that is made with them can be heard over long distances. Bullroarers have been known since the Paleolithic Period and are still used today in some traditional cultures. You can cut your own bullroarer out of a piece of soft wood and listen to its deep tones whose direction can hardly be pinpointed.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sunday project „fell a tree“
How did the prehistoric people manage to fell a tree? The education team is looking forward for little and grown-up helpers to do some woodwork on four Sundays in September.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Leatherworking workshop (bracelet)
Just like Ötzi, you can cut deer leather into strips with flint flakes and, using a technique of his time (twisting), turn them into a “Neolithic bracelet”.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Guided tour „How Ötzi got his Name“
Just a few days after the discovery of the mummy up at the Giogo di Tisa ridge some smart journalists from Vienna created the name “Ötzi”. All about the discovery and the effect of the finding tells you Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator in this thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “The discovery of Ötzi”.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Leatherworking workshop (bracelet)
Just like Ötzi, you can cut deer leather into strips with flint flakes and, using a technique of his time (twisting), turn them into a “Neolithic bracelet”.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Leatherworking workshop (bracelet)
Just like Ötzi, you can cut deer leather into strips with flint flakes and, using a technique of his time (twisting), turn them into a “Neolithic bracelet”.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Leatherworking workshop (bracelet)
Just like Ötzi, you can cut deer leather into strips with flint flakes and, using a technique of his time (twisting), turn them into a “Neolithic bracelet”.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 40 min
Soapstone working workshop (pearls)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. From other archeological sites we know little figures and stone pearls. Our museum educators will show you how to turn blanks into little pearls with the help of flint drills and sandstone.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 45 min
Soapstone working workshop (pearls)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. From other archeological sites we know little figures and stone pearls. Our museum educators will show you how to turn blanks into little pearls with the help of flint drills and sandstone.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 45 min
Demonstration on prehistoric fish smoking
Ötzi and his contemporaries used to smoke and/or dry fresh food in order to build up stocks. Ernst Gamper, museum educator and fisherman, will heat up our smoking oven replica and show you how fish, in this case char, may have been smoked in prehistory.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Fish pond | Percorso 3 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Soapstone working workshop (pearls)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. From other archeological sites we know little figures and stone pearls. Our museum educators will show you how to turn blanks into little pearls with the help of flint drills and sandstone.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 45 min
Guided tour “Linden weaving and cow sinews”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition on animal and plant fiber materials and their use by Ötzi. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sunday project „fell a tree“
How did the prehistoric people manage to fell a tree? The education team is looking forward for little and grown-up helpers to do some woodwork on four Sundays in September.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Soapstone working workshop (pearls)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. From other archeological sites we know little figures and stone pearls. Our museum educators will show you how to turn blanks into little pearls with the help of flint drills and sandstone.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 45 min
Guided tour “The power of fire”
How was fire made during the time of Ötzi, what did he need to do so, and why was it of such great importance? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Demonstration on preparing clay for pottery
It takes a long time from the digging of the clay to the ceramic pot. How to clean the clay? How to prepare the material for the firing? These and more questions will answer Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Canoe stop | Course 3 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Ötzi Day (free admission)
On this day twenty-eight years ago, Erika and Helmut Simon discovered Ötzi. Celebrate his “birthday” with us with hourly tours and a welcome gift.
no registration required | free admission | course 1, 2 and 3
Colour making workshop
Stone-Age people made their paints from ochre and other raw materials. You can try to grind ochre between two stones and make a viscous, water proof paste of it. The potsherd you’ll colour with your self-made painting paste you can take home as a souvenir.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Duration: approx. 40 min
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sunday project „fell a tree“
How did the prehistoric people manage to fell a tree? The education team is looking forward for little and grown-up helpers to do some woodwork on four Sundays in September.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Willow weaving workshop
Baskets, fences and fish traps have been woven from willow and other pliable natural materials for thousands of years. Our museum educators will show you how to make a simple Neolithic fish trap, which at home could become a mini-trellis giving support to your one of your climbing plants.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Ötzi, a Chieftain?!”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” concerning the question of what social status Ötzi had in his society. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Pottery decoration workshop
Sometimes the archaeologists find some pottery fragments with deepened, coloured ornaments. You can try yourself how people at Ötzi’s time were scratching and filling these designs… Our museum educators will show how it works.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 44 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Pottery decoration workshop
Sometimes the archaeologists find some pottery fragments with deepened, coloured ornaments. You can try yourself how people at Ötzi’s time were scratching and filling these designs… Our museum educators will show how it works.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 44 min
Pottery decoration workshop
Sometimes the archaeologists find some pottery fragments with deepened, coloured ornaments. You can try yourself how people at Ötzi’s time were scratching and filling these designs… Our museum educators will show how it works.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 44 min
Pottery decoration workshop
Sometimes the archaeologists find some pottery fragments with deepened, coloured ornaments. You can try yourself how people at Ötzi’s time were scratching and filling these designs… Our museum educators will show how it works.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 44 min
Bow constructing workshop (model)
Among the things, that Ötzi carried was a semifinished bow made from yew. Our museum educators will show you step by step how a piece of wood is turned into a bow. You will work with a 20 cm long wooden blank of hazel wood and then choose from using a flint flake or a modern carving knife.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bow constructing workshop (model)
Among the things, that Ötzi carried was a semifinished bow made from yew. Our museum educators will show you step by step how a piece of wood is turned into a bow. You will work with a 20 cm long wooden blank of hazel wood and then choose from using a flint flake or a modern carving knife.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Bow constructing workshop (model)
Among the things, that Ötzi carried was a semifinished bow made from yew. Our museum educators will show you step by step how a piece of wood is turned into a bow. You will work with a 20 cm long wooden blank of hazel wood and then choose from using a flint flake or a modern carving knife.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour „How Ötzi got his Name“
Just a few days after the discovery of the mummy up at the Giogo di Tisa ridge some smart journalists from Vienna created the name “Ötzi”. All about the discovery and the effect of the finding tells you Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator in this thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “The discovery of Ötzi”.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Bow constructing workshop (model)
Among the things, that Ötzi carried was a semifinished bow made from yew. Our museum educators will show you step by step how a piece of wood is turned into a bow. You will work with a 20 cm long wooden blank of hazel wood and then choose from using a flint flake or a modern carving knife.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Aperitivo Ötzi Glacier Tour
You are interested in the Ötzi Glacier Tour but you want to know more about it before booking? Every Monday at 4 p.m. at the archeoParc cafeteria alpine tour guides, skiing instructors or members of alpine clubs give you information about itinerary, duration and physical conditions needed to participate.
No registration required | Free entrance | Coffee shop | Course 1 | Duration: approx. 30 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Whistle making workshop
When it was that humans began making noises with their bodies, we do not know. Musical instruments such as whistles, flutes, rattles, and drums go back approximately forty thousand years. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can use flint and sandstone to make a whistle out of a hazelnut shell, as was done back as early as the Stone Age.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Neolithic huts”
Thematic tour on the two Neolithic house reconstructions of the group Houses Alpine Valleys (Villanders-Plunacker and Villanuova sul Clisi Monte Covolo) in the open air area with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sunday project “split wooden shingle”
Lots of roofs in the archeoParc are sheltered with wooden shingles because of the findings in different archaeological excavations. But how were the prehistoric people able to split the wood? The education team has some nice wood billet and is looking forward for children and grown-ups to try to split some shingles on Sundays in October.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Demonstration on prehistoric ceramic firing
That you need high temperatures to make clay water proof knew even our ancestors in Stone Age. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator, shows pottery firing in a pit.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Houses Arbon-Bleiche | Duration: approx. 45 min
Bark and flint working workshop (small knife)
During the Neolithic Period, flint had an incredible number of uses for making, drilling, scraping, cutting, engraving, and much, much more. Under the instruction of our museum educators, you can take a flint, a piece of poplar bark, and “Stone Age glue” and make a working push dagger as has been verified for the time of Ötzi.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Handweaving workshop (belt)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a belt in rip weave.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “The power of fire”
How was fire made during the time of Ötzi, what did he need to do so, and why was it of such great importance? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Handweaving workshop (belt)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a belt in rip weave.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Sunday project “split wooden shingle”
Lots of roofs in the archeoParc are sheltered with wooden shingles because of the findings in different archaeological excavations. But how were the prehistoric people able to split the wood? The education team has some nice wood billet and is looking forward for children and grown-ups to try to split some shingles on Sundays in October.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Handweaving workshop (belt)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a belt in rip weave.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Handweaving workshop (belt)
Weaving has been known since as early as the Neolithic Period, and since that time it has been one of the most important cultural techniques of humans. Our museum educators invite you to try your hand at weaving and to make a belt in rip weave.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Antler working workshop (needle)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a needle or an awl the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Demonstration on the making of true tinder lobules for lighting fires
Fluffy tinder lobules were a perfect device to light a fire in a very short time. Ötzi carried some of them with him. But how to make this precious device?
Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator shows the necessary work steps to get a ready to use prehistorical fire kindle out of the flesh of the true tinder fungus.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Haus Brescia-San Polo | Course 3 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Antler working workshop (needle)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a needle or an awl the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Antler working workshop (needle)
During the Stone Age, antlers were a favorite material for creating jewelry and tools. For instance, Ötzi carried the tips of deer antlers with him. We invite you to get familiar with this material that is rather seldom used today and to make a needle or an awl the Stone Age way with rocks, water, and quartz sand.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Woodworking with embers workshop
Woodworking with the assistance of embers is an ancient technique. Even today, some indigenous peoples make use of the heat from embers, for example, to hollow out a tree trunk into a canoe. Discover yourself how wood, embers, a chert scraper, your breath, and your own hands can create a bowl that Ötzi could have used.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Linden weaving and cow sinews”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition on animal and plant fiber materials and their use by Ötzi. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Woodworking with embers workshop
Woodworking with the assistance of embers is an ancient technique. Even today, some indigenous peoples make use of the heat from embers, for example, to hollow out a tree trunk into a canoe. Discover yourself how wood, embers, a chert scraper, your breath, and your own hands can create a bowl that Ötzi could have used.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Sunday project “split wooden shingle”
Lots of roofs in the archeoParc are sheltered with wooden shingles because of the findings in different archaeological excavations. But how were the prehistoric people able to split the wood? The education team has some nice wood billet and is looking forward for children and grown-ups to try to split some shingles on Sundays in October.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Woodworking with embers workshop
Woodworking with the assistance of embers is an ancient technique. Even today, some indigenous peoples make use of the heat from embers, for example, to hollow out a tree trunk into a canoe. Discover yourself how wood, embers, a chert scraper, your breath, and your own hands can create a bowl that Ötzi could have used.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
Further information
Woodworking with embers workshop
Woodworking with the assistance of embers is an ancient technique. Even today, some indigenous peoples make use of the heat from embers, for example, to hollow out a tree trunk into a canoe. Discover yourself how wood, embers, a chert scraper, your breath, and your own hands can create a bowl that Ötzi could have used.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Coil weaving workshop
Reeds, plant fibers, a needle, and the right technique: that’s all you need to make a basket, as is known from Copper Age excavations.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Coil weaving workshop
Reeds, plant fibers, a needle, and the right technique: that’s all you need to make a basket, as is known from Copper Age excavations.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Coil weaving workshop
Reeds, plant fibers, a needle, and the right technique: that’s all you need to make a basket, as is known from Copper Age excavations.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Demonstration on prehistoric butchering
Ötzi wore leather clothes, ate dried meat and used bone tools. Our museum educator Stefan Tappeiner will present the procedure of butchering after hunting an animal. The hunter and butcher shows skinning and braking down the meat with flint tools.
No registration required | Included in the admission fee | Houses Parma-Guidorossi | Course 3 | Duration: approx. 45 min
Coil weaving workshop
Reeds, plant fibers, a needle, and the right technique: that’s all you need to make a basket, as is known from Copper Age excavations.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Ötzi, a Chieftain?!”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” concerning the question of what social status Ötzi had in his society. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Sunday project “split wooden shingle”
Lots of roofs in the archeoParc are sheltered with wooden shingles because of the findings in different archaeological excavations. But how were the prehistoric people able to split the wood? The education team has some nice wood billet and is looking forward for children and grown-ups to try to split some shingles on Sundays in October.
No registration required | 12:00 – 15:00 o’clock| Included in the admission fee | On the lake | Course 3 | Duration: depends on interest
Guided tour „How Ötzi got his Name“
Just a few days after the discovery of the mummy up at the Giogo di Tisa ridge some smart journalists from Vienna created the name “Ötzi”. All about the discovery and the effect of the finding tells you Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator in this thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “The discovery of Ötzi”.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour
The extremely varied one day round tour crosses the main chain oft the Alps. The undisputed highlight of this accompanied glacier hiking tour is the discovery site of Ötzi the Iceman (3,210m).
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Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Sea shell jewelry making workshop
Sea shells, snail shells, fruit pit pearls, teeth, wood. All sorts of different things were used during the time of Ötzi for jewelry. You can polish sea shells and drill through wooden discs to make pendants and pearls. On top of that, you will learn how Ötzi made cords out of plant fibers with the weaving technique. Then all you have to do is string it together and your “Stone Age chain” is done.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Comb making workshop
Wood was one of the most important materials during the stone age. Nevertheless, there are much more archaeological finds made of stone, because organic materials need to be conserved under special conditions to outlast for so many time. In this workshop you will learn to make a wooden comb, similar to those used at the time of the Iceman.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: 40-60 min
Guided tour “Linden weaving and cow sinews”
Thematic tour in the permanent exhibition on animal and plant fiber materials and their use by Ötzi. With Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Birch polypore, pitch and tinder”
The thematic tour to barks and other tiny treasure from the wood, which Ötzi used raw or processed. Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator tells you more about it in our permit exhibition “flora, fauna, human” and in the houses Alpentäler at the open-air area.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 45 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Tanned and woven”
Thematic tour on the clothing of the Ice Man and his contemporaries in the permanent exhibition with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Soapstone working workshop (pendant)
Ötzi carried with him a disc of limestone with a hole in it. For your first efforts at Stone Age polishing, drilling, and engraving, a less hard rock is more suitable: soapstone. Let your imagination run wild and stick around! With the help of flint drills and sandstone, you will soon turn blanks into amulets, talismans, animal statuettes, pendants, and much, much more…
No registration required | Starts every hour from 11:30 on, last start one hour before the evening closing of the open-air area | Included in the admission fee | Course 2 | Workshop area | Duration: approx. 60 min
Guided tour “Hunted, cut and gathered”
What did Ötzi eat, and which plants and trees were important for the people of that era? A thematic tour through the permanent exhibition “Primitive? Skilled!” with Eric Wellenzohn, museum educator.
No registration required | Costs: +3€ | Course 1 | Meeting point: main entrance | Duration: approx. 60 min
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo di Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. The start and the finish of the tour is in Kurzras. The conditions for the participation on the tour are your own touring stuff and experiences in ski touring or at least good parallel skiing.
