Jenbach Town Museum

One part of the exhibition at the local and nature museum of Jenbach is dedicated to the South Tyrolean people in Jenbach.

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In the Achensee road 21 in Jenbach there’s the Jenbach Town Museum.
Foto: AT, © Peer
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The history of the scythe, the most important tool to preserve the landscaping, starts in Jenbach in the 14th century.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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The alpine exhibition tells the story of winter sports and alpinism.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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Jenbach is a traffic junction - in the image you can see a model of the Lake Achensee cogwheel railway.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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South Tyrolean people in Jenbach…. in the course of the so-called Option in 1939, 376 families were resettled in Jenbach.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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More than 3,000 domestic and exotic butterflies are shown in the butterfly exhibition.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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Additional beetles, spiders and other insects as well as mushrooms, birds, snails and clams are shown.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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The museum houses also Tyrol’s largest collection of birds’ eggs and 300 exemplars of local birds and animals.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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A pheasant, a galliform, next to is a bee-eater and an oystercatcher, a typical bird of the North Sea coast.
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel
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The museum of Jenbach has been certified with the Austrian Quality Seal for Museums. Really worth visiting!
© Jenbacher Museum, Foto: Erika Felkel

In the heart of of Jenbach, the local museum of the village is located which has plenty to offer. Scythes and railways, the millennium-old history of alpinism and the history of Jenbach - all that is part of the exhibition. The areas which are dedicated to nature, show butterflies, 300 domestic birds and animals, 300 exhibits of foreign snails and clams as well as the most popular edible and toxic mushrooms. Another part of the museum is dedicated to the South Tyrolean people, who left their homes in the course of the so-called Option in 1939 and were resettled in Jenbach.

In those times, 376 families were brought to the North Tyrolean village. A piece of contemporary history! Also special exhibitions take place in the museum, as in 2017 the "History of the Advent Calendar" or "Hans Pontiller, Austrian Sculptor of the 20th century". Hans Pontiller was born in 1887 in Jenbach and created numerous wooden and bronze works. For 2018 the exhibition "The History of Medicine in the Course of Time" is planned.

The museum covers an area of 700 sqm, spread over three floors. Since 2016 the building is barrier-free, a lift takes the visitors up to the second floor. The Jenbach Town Museum (Jenbacher Museum) has been certified with the Austrian Quality Seal for Museums and awarded with the Austrian and Tyrolean Museum Award.

Contact info

Achenseestrasse road 21 - 6200 - Jenbach
Guided tours or visits upon reservation.
+43 664 9517845
info@jenbachermuseum.at

Admission

€ 5.00 adults
€ 4.00 seniors
€ 4.00 groups (10 and more persons, without guided tour)
€ 2.00 children (from 6 years), students (up to 25 years)

guided tours (only on request and by reservation):
€ 20.00 guided tour
€ 8.00 groups (per person, admission included)
€ 2.00 school classes (per person, admission included)

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