Hüttenberg - Culture, Nature, Pleasure The world famous mountain village of Hüttenberg has become an important cultural meeting point over the last few years. Like someone on a discovery expedition you will encounter treasures of far cultures, works by contemporanean artists and a natural environment created 16,000 years ago on your adventurous way through the Hüttenberg area. Heinrich Harrer Museum Professor Heinrich Harrer, the outstanding explorer and famous author ("Seven Years In Tibet", "I Come From The Stone Age", "The White Spider",...), has donated great parts of his ethnological collection to Hüttenberg, where he was born. Objects from Tibet, from other Himalayan countries, from Southamerica, Africa, New Guinea and Borneo, as well as Harrer's expedition equipment and photographs of his life are on display. Every visitor will - without fail - feel like an explorer himself and together with the explorer he will become acquainted with the various cultures on earth. Every year the museum offers special exhibitions and events. Interesting programs will make your visit to the museum an exciting and extraordinary experience. Realistic settings convey an authentic atmosphere. Also part of the Heinrich Harrer-Museum: The "Lingkor" - a tibetian pilgrimsway. Opened from April to October, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; guided tours (german or english) also possible from November to March. For further information please contact: phone: +43 4263 8108 ; office@harrermuseum.at Mining Museum, Show Mine and Mineralogical Collection The Celts have triggered a revolution in human development with it and during the Roman Empire it became world famous under the name "Ferrum Noricum" - no wonder then that still today even after discontinuation of ore mining in Hüttenberg the myth of 2500 year-old tradition is still alive. Following the traces of "the iron tradition" you will experience very realistically the fascinating but sometimes dangerous features of this most intense struggle of man with nature. The mineral kingdom - crystal clear or opaque, valuable or merely detritus, hazardous or harmless - here at the third largest deposit worldwide, all these minerals are categorized in a spellbinding presentation. Opened from April to October, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; For further information please contact: +43 4263 8108 ; office@huettenberg.at Geological Centre "GEOZENTRUM" To find, determine, cut and mount minerals is only part of the manifold course program which offers something for everyone from the enthusiastic amateur to the qualified expert. The "GEOzentrum" also offers: Comfortable rooms or apartments with shower/WC, seminar-rooms, library, grinding-rooms, computer-working place, TV-room, bar,... For further information please contact: +43 4263 75028 ; office-knappenberg@cma-musikakademie.at Open-air Museum Heft The ruins of the steel works in Heft are among the most impressive industrial monuments of Carinthia. Experience mining history in a castle-like scenario, between the more than one meter thick walls of what once was the most innovative blast furnace of modern times, and amidst the immense silence you will sense the power of the fire. In the years 1993-95 the famous austrian architect Günter Domenig realized his project for a partly winter-proof exhibition and performance area. The result speaks for itself. Carinthia received an architectural work of international importance in the nineties. Domenig´s work tried to avoid every injury or disturbance of the impressive old buildings. Concentrating on the essence of modern industrial building, he stages these archaic technical ruins within the surrounding landscape. Old and new buildings have been connected to a unique new sequence of rooms through a system of ramps, bridges, lifts and staircases. This culminates in the projecting grilled girder of the "hovering mine-shaft," and thus represents a just as daring as trivial, yet convincing symbol for the mining tradition of this region. For further information please contact: +43 4263 8108 ; office@huettenberg.at