Touriseum Meran - Museum of Tourism
The museum is located in the Castle of Trauttmansdorff near Meran, in the middle of a wonderful botanic garden.
Once it was the holiday residence of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, now the Castle tells the history of South Tyrolean Tourism in the last 200 years. The museum focuses on 3 topics:
- 1st: how South Tyrol became touristy
- 2nd: the travellers and the persons living in a tourist country
- 3rd: tourism as an industry
These topics are elaborated in various different stations, with beginning in year 1750, when the mountains were feared, continuing 1890 when Meran became a touristy centre and coming to the 1960 and 1970 when South Tyrol lived a tourism renaissance after the two World Wars and arriving till the presence.
After the sightseeing, the museum offers a pleasant reading room and a multimedia station where the visitors can find answers to the questions remaining of the South Tyrolean Tourism. Before you leave the castle you will see an amusing attraction: the largest "tourism pin-ball-machine" in the world! The exhibition ends with a symbolic parcours through South Tyrol.
More info & opening hours:
Touriseum – Tourism Museum South Tyrol
St. Valentinstraße 51a, I- 39012 Meran
Phone: +39 0473 255655
E-mail: info@touriseum.it
Web: touriseum.it
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The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert Gruber
The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert Gruber
The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert Gruber
The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert Gruber
The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert Gruber
The South Tyrolean Museum of Tourism is located in Trauttmansdorff Castle and tells more about the history of tourism in South Tyrol, about how the region is seen by travellers and by the tourist industry.
Touriseum - Robert GruberMuseums
Selected accommodations in Meran
- Quiet location in the villa district of Obermais
- Only 10 minutes' walk to the centre of Meran
- Garden with pool & sun terrace
- Directly on the cycle path to the Passeier Valley
- Comfortably furnished apartments with balcony
- Idyllic location above Meran
- 4 cosy apartments with balconies
- Bread roll service & barbecue facilities
- Small forest lake belonging to the farm
- Ski storage & Südtirol Guest Pass
- Traditional hotel in Obermais
- Elegant rooms & suites
- Indoor pool, outdoor pool & saunas
- Regional cuisine
- Hiking, cycling & discovering Waalwege trails
- B&B close to the centre of Meran
- Cosy rooms and family atmosphere
- Garden with swimming pool
- Excellent breakfast on the sun terrace
- Possibility of excursions & cultural visits