A worldwide unique exhibition about alpine ecology – a modern museum of nature above the tree line. 

Highly sensitive and extremely diverse; fascinating survival strategies, extreme conditions and contrasts, beauty and enchantment – the world of alpine mountains is certainly worth discovering.

A drive over the Grossglockner High Alpine Road leads one to an altitude difference of over 1,500 metres and almost all non-tropical climatic- and vegetation zones. This represents a 4,000-kilometre journey through natural history from the Tauern to the Arctic. The “Alpine Nature Show” Museum shows what one should look for and acquire an understanding of the wonders of nature.

At an altitude of around 2,300 metres, visitors can become acquainted with, understand and experience, the complex ecological interplay and interrelationships and fascinating survival strategies of the unique animals and plants in the heart of the ancient landscapes of the National Park. One will be transported to the large and small world of this extreme habitat, which can be experienced at every step along the Glockner Road.

Through a sense of wonder and understanding, one should at last gain special respect for the sensitive habitats in the high mountains.

Through the generous, vital equipping with modern museum methods of depiction, the “Alpine Nature Show” Museum mediates a lasting impression and makes complex interrelationships understandable: visitors not only pass passively through the exhibition and read texts on information boards, they can actively bring into motion the flow of information, “communicate with the exhibition”, move models to make interrelationships visible and to experience them.

A “Marmot Show” in the multimedia cinema

Our  “Marmot Show” at the multimedia cinema gives a first impression of alpine nature along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road.

A botanical study trail and an exhibition of rocks and lichens on open terrain impressively complement the museum presentation. The study trail shows visitors the magnificent alpine flora. The geology exhibition shows the rocks, and their origin, of the Hohen Tauern through excellent academically arranged lectern displays with a selection of appropriate blocks of stone. Graphic educational boards and large “lichen rocks” give information about the interesting world of lichens, which are an especially important part of the ecological system in the high mountains.

The “Alpine Nature Show” Museum is open daily from 9am to 5pm, when the road is open. Admission is free of charge.