MMM Ortles - Messner Mountain Museum

The museum in Sulden am Ortler, an underground structure at 1900 m above sea-level, is devoted to the world of ice.

“At the end of the world” we call it. That is what it says on a 1771 map drawn by Peter Anich showing the glacier on the Ortler, beneath which the Ice Museum is located. At MMM Ortles Reinhold Messner tells of the Terrors of Ice and Darkness, Snow People and Snow Lions, the Whiteout and the Third Pole. The museum houses the world’s biggest collection of Ortler paintings as well as ice-climbing gear from two centuries. Skiing, ice-climbing and expeditions to the Poles are the themes. Visitors find themselves inside the mountain, where they are given a clear picture of ice mountains, the Arctic and Antarctic, the power of avalanches, and the pains taken by artists to depict the world of ice. Outside, the ice is very real, and round the corner the Yak&Yeti offers fine fare from the snows of the Himalayas as well as the typical dishes of South Tyrol.

MMM Ortles is open from the forth Sunday in May to the second Sunday in October and from the second Sunday in December to 1 May.
2 - 6 p.m.; in july and august 1 - 7 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays

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