Iuenna-Museum, Globasnitz

The Archaeological Pilgrimage Museum stands in Globasnitz, a village in Carinthia. It occupies part of the old primary school building, adapted in 2003–2006 to house late antique and early Christian finds. The collection centres on discoveries from the Hemmaberg plateau and the valley below, where Roman and Ostrogothic remains were uncovered. In 2014 the museum became the first in Carinthia to receive the Austrian Museum Quality Seal, renewed in 2019. Research began in 1906 with Hans Winkler, a notary from Ptuj, and resumed systematically from 1978 under Franz Glaser of the Carinthian regional museum. The displays are arranged to show how people lived and worshipped during the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. A covered lapidarium in the front garden holds Roman inscriptions and reliefs from the area. Inside, six rooms guide visitors from introductory films in the foyer through skeletal remains and deformed skulls in their original grave positions. Upstairs, exhibits trace the site’s prehistoric and Roman past, then focus on pilgrimage and the rise of saint veneration around the year 500. On the upper floor the story of Hemmaberg’s five churches is told, alongside evidence for both Arian and Nicene Christians. One room displays the mosaic floors recovered from the churches and the rituals they suggest. A mezzanine room looks at later medieval cults, including a 15th-century church dedicated to Hemma of Gurk and a grotto chapel to Saint Rosalia. The museum also hosts annual special exhibitions organised by the local history society.