Museum im Zeughaus Guide

Your guide for the museum in the armory.

With this app you will enrich your visit to the armory. Learn interesting details and background information on the exhibits.

In the former armory of Emperor Maximilian I is now home to a museum of Tyrol's cultural history. The tour focuses on geology and mineralogy at the beginning of the country. In the following stations Typical is represented from different historical periods: mining, religion, the Napoleonic era, the 19th century with the emergence of tourism and the world wars. Highlights include the Schwaz mountain book of 1556, the first street wall map of Europe from 1520 and the large globes of Peter Anich 18th century. Drawers with objects from all periods presented invite you to explore and wonder. The armory sees itself as a museum for the whole family.

PERMANENT COLLECTION

The journey through the cultural history of Tyrol starts explaining the formation of the present-day landscape appearance Tyrol. Issued include rocks such as the Hagauer marble in architecture Tyrol plays an important role as a building block, or those that are testimony to the processes that have affected the valleys after the retreat of the last glacier.

The permanent exhibition illustrates that Tyrol was the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times, a mining area of ​​the first rank. Copper, silver, zinc, lead, iron and salt have been removed. The Tyrolean coinage reached its peak in the reign of Archduke Sigmund the Wealthy and Maximilian. You can see features like the Schwaz mountain book of 1556, the Miners' cup of Rattenberg in 1600, stamping tools and numerous Schaugepräge Maximilian I like portrait coins Hochzeitsguldiner or DoppelReiter Taler occasion of the adoption of the imperial title.

Tangled in a New Era

The social and religious grievances of the 16th century and the start of the Counter-Reformation, led to still sometimes benützten catchphrase "Holy Land" Tyrol, is dedicated to another room. It tells of alleged "witches" and "wizards" of rebels and outsiders such. B. Michael Gaismair who rebelled in the 16th century against the oppression of peasants by the landed aristocracy and the clergy, or the "Hutterites," a religious group that was formed after the end of the peasant uprisings and rejected all forms of authority.

Another station in the permanent collection are the wars of liberation of Tyrol. The special commitment of the Tyrolean freedom fights in the hung heavily with their privileges together (no serfdom, Landlibell of 1511) and the high esteem of their own fatherland. Among the most outstanding personalities of the time include Andreas Hofer, Major Josef Speckbacher and the Capuchin Pate Joachim Haspinger.

Inventors and discoverers

Scientific achievements and the "conquest" of the mountainous country z. B. by landscape painters and tourism lit another room. An outstanding property is the first European Road wall map of Martin Waldseemüller from the year 1520. With Peter Anich (1723-1766) from Oberperfuss the culmination of local cartographic services is achieved. On display are u. A. His big globes. In the 19th century, the invention of a Mappierungsgeräts for Distanzen-, curve and height measurements of Jacob Eisendle is exemplary.

The favorable development of the country, whose economy received a strong support by the burgeoning tourism experiences with the outbreak of World War I a sharp break. In the last section of the permanent collections, the political development of the country is outlined by the division to the "European Region of Tyrol".