Alpines Museum
The Alpine Museum—Alpines Museum—works as more than a display space for mountain history: it is an institutional hub of German-speaking mountaineering culture. Built for the Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV), it houses the Historisches Alpenarchiv shared by the DAV, the Österreichischer Alpenverein (ÖAV), and the Alpenverein Südtirol (AVS), alongside a library and collections devoted to the history of alpinism. The idea goes back to a decision of the then joint Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins, DuOeAV, in 1874, committing to “expand and broaden” knowledge of the Alps. Practical planning accelerated from 1904, and on 14 July 1907 an Innsbruck general assembly tasked the central committee with starting the museum preparations. …
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