Collepietra/Steinegg Museum

Museum Steinegg sits on the church square in Steinegg, a hamlet in the municipality of Karneid in the Eggental valley, around 13 kilometres from Bolzano. Spread across more than 1,000 square metres, three floors and 18 rooms, it houses some 18,000 lovingly curated exhibits spanning a thousand years of Tyrolean history. It ranks among the finest local heritage museums in South Tyrol and can only be visited on guided tours.

From Rural Life to the Resurrection Chapel

At the heart of the exhibition is the farming life of centuries past. Authentically furnished parlours, bedrooms and workshops paint a vivid picture of everyday existence for the mountain communities of the Eggental — from the smoke kitchen, where meals were cooked over an open fire, to the bedroom with painted wooden furniture and a traditional chest, and the parlour with its Herrgottswinkel, the devotional corner found in every Tyrolean home. Alongside folk art, furniture and tools, the museum also displays South Tyrolean traditional costumes, a mineral collection, specimens of local wildlife and relics of long-forgotten crafts. A particular highlight is the Resurrection Chapel, fitted with precious statues and sacred artworks from the old parish church.

Star Village and Earth Pyramids

The museum is located in the First European Star Village: the neighbouring hamlet of Gummer is home to Planetarium South Tyrol and the Max Valier Observatory. Those looking to combine a museum visit with a walk can head straight from the village to the Steinegg Earth Pyramids — striking, up to 15-metre-tall pillars of clay and rock left behind by the Ice Age, rising high above the Tiers valley.

Take highway's exit “Bolzano Nord/Eggental”, turn left direction Prato all'Isarco and than Collepietra/Steinegg. (about 20 min. from highway toll booth).