The museum is located in the building of the cable car that is in the center of the Memorial Zone of the Italian and Austro-Hungarian combat positions.

No other place can boast such contrasts between steep rocks and gentle grassy pastures. The Dolomites and their unique beauty. The most beautiful treasures of the Dolomites collected by Michael Wachtler, and placed in the history of their unique becoming.

Every year are organized expositions, concerts and seminars in the rooms and in the courtyard of the Castle. There also take place lectures about the most different themes around the Ladin language and culture.

Reinhold Messner has dedicated to the mountains and the mountain culture a unique project, a network of museums located in five extraordinary places in the Alps.

These pages offer an insight into the geological evolution and fossils of the Dolomites, narrate the history and traditions of Cortina d’Ampezzo and present a foremost collection of 20th-cent. Italian art.

The Ladin Cultural Institute is one of the cultural centres which support the Ladin community, a linguistic minority in the heart of the Dolomites (Italy).

The South Tyrol Museum of Folk Traditions.

Murer's Museum.

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, San Michele all'Adige (TN)