Alpine Club Museum, Mountaineering museum in Old Town, Innsbruck, Austria.

The Alpine Club Museum is a museum space in Innsbruck's Old Town dedicated to mountaineering history and equipment. Inside, visitors find climbing gear spanning different eras, photographs, documents, and objects that trace how people have explored and conquered alpine peaks.

The museum opened in 1911 in a former villa on the Isar in Munich as the "Alpine Museum", following a 1907 resolution of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. Shelling destroyed the building in 1944, but most of the collection had already been moved to Tyrol. The ÖAV showed part of it in the Palais Thurn und Taxis from 1973, then on the third floor of its Wilhelm-Greil-Straße house from 1977; from 2008 the permanent exhibition ran in the Hofburg.

The museum is run by the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV), whose archive and depot remain in its new Innsbruck clubhouse even after the exhibition left the Hofburg. Its 2009 Tyrolean and Austrian Museum Prizes and 2010 nomination for the European Museum Prize went to the show "Mountains, an Incomprehensible Passion". The 1907 resolution of the German and Austrian Alpine Club that created the museum is the origin of the collection visitors see.

The museum occupied around 700 m² on the first floor of the Hofburg in Innsbruck's Altstadt, reached on foot from the old town lanes. The permanent exhibition there ran until October 2014, while the archive and depot stayed in the Alpine Club's new building. Visitors heading for the displays should confirm the current location before setting out.

A permanent exhibition titled 'Mountains, an Incomprehensible Passion' displays rare items documenting how climbing techniques and equipment have changed over many decades. Some of these objects date back to the earliest days of mountaineering and are rarely seen elsewhere.