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The Museum + The permanent exhibition at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology is all about Ötzi, the Iceman. On three floors, the exhibition displays both the mummy itself and other finds: clothing and equipment. + In addition, visitors learn the details of how Ötzi was found, the complicated recovery mission, the determination of the mummy’s age, and the sophisticated conservation method. + The museum also has a section dedicated to how our Copper-Age ancestors lived their daily lives. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the lifelike reconstruction of the Iceman. + South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano/Bozen: Via Museo 43, phone +39 0471 320 100, Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm, adult ticket 9 EUR. www.iceman.it
Ötzi In 1991, mountaineers at the Schnalstal glacier stumbled upon Ötzi, the ice mummy. The find soon turned out to be sensational: the mummy was more than 5,300 years old and had been naturally preserved in the ice. Thorough examination led to the discovery of an arrowhead in the left shoulder blade: the man had been murdered! When he was alive, Ötzi was approx. 1.60 metres tall and weighed 50 kilos. He had dark hair of medium length and was 45 years old when he died.
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