Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe Visitors’ Centre

In an area of around 1,000m², the “Grossglockner” exhibition shows you everything of interest about the highest mountain in Austria.

On the four exhibition floor of the new Visitors’ Centre on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, visitors are presented the following focuses about the Grossglockner, admission free of charge.

Ground floor
Entrance and information area with Flash Mail.

1st floor
The “Fascination of Ice and Glaciers” exhibition. Risk a glance beneath the frigid surface of ice and all of its forms. Immerse yourself in the bizarre world of ice crystals and the fascinating inner life of the crevices and caves of the massive glacier. What messages does ice give us? How fast does the glacier flow? To which ancient times do the glacier blocks relate?
Find the answers here!

Exhibition realisation: Team Eiswelten, Innsbruck,  www.eiswelten.at

2nd floor
“Rock & Ice” adventure trail. Take off on the established paths in the high mountains yourself, test your surefootedness, experience the feeling of walking through an icy and narrow glacier crevice, hear the typical sounds of the high mountains – wind, cries of the alpine choughs, whistles of the marmots – and then enjoy the impressive film about the Grossglockner in the cinema.

3rd floor
The Glockner Cinema and newly designed interactive Glockner Panorama and the Grossglockner Quiz.Experience the Grossglockner up close – once as an impressive multi-vision show in the Glockner Cinema with a film awarded the 2000 Austrian State Prize by Universum film-maker Dr. Georg Riha. Astonishing impressions, independent of whether you experience your visit to the Grossglockner as sunny and clear, or overcast with clouds!

And another time in the interactively designed Glockner Panorama Room. You will experience the feeling of standing on the summit and absorbing the impressive panorama spread out before you. Emphasised by sounds and bird calls from the summit area.

The Grossglockner Quiz – test your knowledge of the highest mountain in Austria. You will receive the answers to the many questions that have always interested you on numerous flip boards. Would you like to know, for example, where the water flows to from the Pasterze, the longest glacier in the eastern Alps? Or which empress visited the Glockner region in the 19th century? Then visit us at the “Grossglockner” exhibition!

4th floor
A special exhibition to the theme of the "Mystery of Water", the world of Viktor Schauberger, which gives an insight into the world of ideas of a visionary. The life of Viktor Schauberger is concerned essentially with the theme of water and all of its unfathomable secrets. The "vortex" or whirlpool represents in his thought the focal point of vitality - and the visitors´  tour through the show is presented on this basis. The exhibition comprises quotations, original exhibits and models from the activities of Viktor Schauberger - the range here is from lavish log water channels to fragile vortex-power machines.

Exhibition realisation: Team Eiswelten, Innsbruck,  www.eiswelten.at

The “Grossglockner” exhibition in the Visitors’ Centre on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is open daily until 31 October 2004 from 10am to 5pm.
Admission is free of charge.