Messner Mountain Museum Firmiam (Schloss Sigmundskron)

Firmian Castle is located in the south-western outskirts of Bolzano and is headquarters of museum circuit of the city, Messner Mountain Museum, built and designed by famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who has managed it since 2006. The exhibition winds through the towers, halls , courtyards and offers visitors a vision of mountain universe. Works, paintings, relics, natural exhibits tell the close relationship between man and mountain, the mountain building of the mountain ranges and their breakup, the link between mountain and religion, the majesty of the most famous peaks in the world, the history of mountaineering, to today's alpine tourism.