The Alpine Club Museum (german: Alpenverein-Museum) in

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, Austria is a museum dedicated to the history of alpinism. Located in the

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in the Altstadt section of the city, the museum is owned by the

Austrian Alpine Club The Austrian Alpine Club (german: Österreichischer Alpenverein) has about 573,000 members in 196 sections and is the largest mountaineering organisation in Austria. It is responsible for the upkeep of over 234 alpine huts in Austria and neighbour ...

(ÖAV). In 2009, the museum was assessed as "excellent" for the Tyrolean and Austrian Museum Prizes,Tiroler Nachrichten: ''Österreichischer Museumspreis für das Alpenverein-Museum Innsbruck''
accessed on 30 Jan 2010 and was also nominated for the European Museum Prize in 2010.

History

The Alpine Club Museum was opened in 1911 in a former villa on the

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as the "Alpine Museum", following a key resolution by the

German and Austrian Alpine Club The German and Austrian Alpine Club (german: Deutscher und Österreichischer Alpenverein, DuÖAV) was a merger of the German, Austrian and German Bohemian Alpine Club that existed from 1873 to 1938. History In 1862 the ''Sektion Austria'' was fou ...

in 1907. In 1944 it was destroyed by shelling, but fortunately the majority of the collection had already been moved to

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in Austria. It was not until 1973, however, that the ÖAV had a part of the collection displayed in the Palace of Thurn and Taxis in Maria Theresia Straße. From 1977 the museum was located on the third floor of the newly built Alpine Club house in Wilhelm Greil Straße. In 1993 the exhibition floor was changed structurally and in 1996 they began to produce their own exhibitions. In 2002, the "Year of the Mountains", an exhibition was displayed for the first time in the public arena ("Vertical - The Innsbruck Northern Mountain Chain. An Exhibition in the City"). After the Alpine Club had moved to a new building in 2008 the old exhibition area was no longer available and a cooperative agreement was reached with the Hofburg whereby the permanent exhibition, "Mountains - an Incomprehensible Passion" (''"Berge, eine unverständliche Leidenschaft"''), would be displayed on an area of 700 m² on the first floor until 2012.

Sources and Literature

* AV-Jahrbuch Berg 2011 * Bergauf 01/2011; pages 3, 5–8, 14–17

External links

OEAV: ''Ausstellung des Alpenverein-Museums in der Hofburg Innsbruck''

Kultur.tirol.at: ''Alpenverein-Museum Innsbruck

Historisches Alpenarchiv

Ausstellungsfolder

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