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 House Villanders-Plunacker – until further notice replaced by activities mentioned here: Today at archeoParc
A museum educator shows how Ötzi made fire with the assistance of pyrite, flint, and tinder fungus.no reservation required | house Villanders-Plunacker | course 1 | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 20 min
Daily | 12:30-16:30
Baking bread over the camp – until further notice replaced by activities mentioned here: Today at archeoParc
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 | workshop area | course 2 | included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 20 min
Daily | 12:30-16:30
Grinding Flour on the Copper Age Stone Mill – until further notice replaced by activities mentioned here: Today at archeoParc
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 | workshop area | course 2 | 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 – until further notice replaced by activities mentioned here: Today at archeoParc
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 | archery area | course 3 | 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 – until further notice replaced by activities mentioned here: Today at archeoParc
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 | canoe stop | course 3| included in the admission fee | duration: approx. 10 min
Twined weaving workshop (Pad)
Ötzi’s mat and the scabbard for his knife were made with the help of a technique that we call twined weaving. Do your own wickerwork with bulrushes and fibers in what may well be the oldest technique for textile weaving.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 12:30 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
Deer antler working workshop (Awl)
Ötzi’s clothes and some pieces of his equipment were made out of leather and fur. These materials are too hard and too thick to be sewed directly with needle and thread: they must be previously punctured with an awl. Our museum educators will show you how to make an awl of antlers and poplar bark using only flint stylus and a sharpening stones.
No registration required | Starts every hour from 12:30 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
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 12:30 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
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 12:30 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
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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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 12:30 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
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 12:30 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 Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. It starts and ends in Maso Corto. Participation requires your own ski touring equipment as well as experience in ski touring or a high level of parallel turning.
Further information
Ötzi Glacier Tour Ski
The extremely varied ski tour leads to the Giogo Tisa ridge, where Ötzi was discovered in 1991. It starts and ends in Maso Corto. Participation requires your own ski touring equipment as well as experience in ski touring or a high level of parallel turning.
Further information
