South Tyrol Archeological Museum, Archaeological museum in central Bolzano, Italy.
The South Tyrol Archeological Museum is an archaeology museum in Bolzano spread across three floors displaying items from ancient times. The collection includes tools, weapons, clothing, and other objects along with videos and explanations that illustrate life in the Alps thousands of years ago.
The museum was created in 1998 in a former Austro-Hungarian bank building to house a prehistoric mummy discovered in 1991 on a mountain pass. This find is dated to around 3300 BC.
The museum's name refers to the region where the displayed artifacts were discovered and their importance for understanding this area. Visitors see objects that show how people lived in the mountains thousands of years ago, from tools to clothing.
Access to the museum is straightforward as it sits in central Bolzano with good signage from the main streets. Plan for at least two to three hours to see everything comfortably, and note that some sections are underground where the air feels cool.
The world's most famous remains were revealed through X-ray examination to show an arrow wound in the shoulder that severed a major artery. This represents one of the oldest documented cases of violent injury in human history.
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