The archaeological Museum of South Tyrol, located in the city of Bolzano, is one of the main attractions of the city and the region Trentino-Alto Adige. His most valuable treasure is the world-famous mummy Oetzi.

The Museum was founded in 1998 year, specifically for the storage of mummies found seven years earlier on the glacier Similan. Found her two German tourists from Nuremberg. They found the mummy of a body recently dead mountaineer, but when she was taken to the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and it was immediately recognized as a mummy of primitive man.

According to scientists, a man named Oetzi, lived about 3300-m BC today it is the world's oldest human mummy. Thanks to her, the scientists were able to "see" incredibly distant from us copper age European continent. Among found with the Oetzi tools were also found the world's oldest fully preserved axe, the equipment for cultivation of fire, quiver with 12 arrows and a sword in the scabbard. And, of course, clothes.

Similana mummy now kept in a special chamber with controlled climate with the temperature-6ºС and humidity at 98%, which reproduces the conditions of the glacier, where it was found. In addition to the original findings in the exhibition devoted to Oetzi, you can also explore the reconstruction of the conditions of his life and to get acquainted with multimedia materials about the life of Oetzi in the context of the early history of the Alpine region.

Interestingly, after the discovery of Oetzi the media immediately started talking about the curse of the mummy, clearly inspired by "the curse of the pharaohs". It is authentically known about the death of seven people involved in the detection, investigation and study of mummies, among whom were the same German hiker Helmut Simon and Konrad Spindler, the first examined Oetzi in 1991 year. Four of these people died in an accident.

Himself Archaeological Museum of South Tyrol is located in a former Bank building from the 19th century. His collection takes up 4 floors and introduce the history and archaeology of the South-Alpine region from the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (15 thousand years BC) until the middle Ages (800 ad). And in 2006-m to year the Museum is hosting the exhibition dedicated to the culture of Chachapoya – pre-Columbian culture that existed in Peru in 10-15-th centuries.