Hallstatt Museum

Museum Hallstatt stands beside the Hallstättersee below the ancient salt mines on the mountainside. It occupies the former parsonage and houses the world’s finest collection of finds from the nearby Iron Age cemeteries and salt workings. These discoveries gave their name to the Hallstatt culture, recognised across Europe. The museum reunites objects once scattered between Linz, Vienna and even Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ramsauer’s early records and Engl’s watercolours show how carefully the graves were recorded. Later excavations by the Duchess of Mecklenburg and Morton uncovered more than a hundred burials and Bronze Age tools. A Roman pediment found in 1987 shows how salt mining resumed on a grand scale in the imperial period. Visitors find late Neolithic stone tools alongside Bronze Age weapons and buckets. Roman Samian bowls and a fine stone pediment stand among brooches and pottery. The displays follow the story from the first miners to the Iron Age chieftains and the later Roman revival of the industry.