museum fuer alltagskultur
museum fuer alltagskultur

Museum of Popular Culture

The interesting Museum of Popular Culture is housed in a historic house under the medieval Arcades of Egna

Customs, habits and objects of everyday life - all this can be admired in the Museum of Popular Culture - "Museum für Alltagskultur" in German, "Museo di Cultura Popolare" in Italian - in Egna on the South Tyrolean Wine Road. The museum was opened in 1995 in a historic building under the Egna Arcades, one of the last unspoilt arcade houses of Egna. These picturesque arcades with their stately houses, today a pedestrian zone, were built between 1300 and 1600, while Egna itself was founded at the end of the 12th century.

Furniture, accessories and toys are spread over two floors and the attic, and show the bourgeois life of the 19th and 20th century in the old rooms. The foundation stone was laid by Anna Grandi Müller, who collected the exhibits in decades of detailed work from attics and flea markets. A museum was created which today looks as if the rooms are still inhabited.

Here you can see a needlework room and a dressing room as well as a classroom and a doll room, a smoke room and a sacred space. The Museum of Popular Culture is run by volunteers. And how to reach it? It is located under the arcades, outside parking spaces are available. Moreover it is accessible also by public transport, e.g. by bus no. 120 (Bolzano - Egna).

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Opening times

  • Tue 19 Mar closed
  • Wed 20 Mar closed
  • Thu 21 Mar closed
  • Fri 22 Mar closed
  • Sat 23 Mar closed
  • Sun 24 Mar closed
  • Mon 25 Mar closed

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Spring 2024 (28/03/2024 - 02/06/2024)

  • Mon closed
  • Tue 10:00 - 12:00
  • Wed 16:00 - 18:00
  • Thu 16:00 - 18:00
  • Fri 10:00 - 12:00
  • Sat closed
  • Sun 10:00 - 12:00

Easter 2024 (31/03/2024) 10:00 - 12:00

Easter Monday 2024 (01/04/2024) closed

Liberation Day 2024 (25/04/2024) 16:00 - 18:00

Labor Day 2024 (01/05/2024) 16:00 - 18:00

Whit Monday 2024 (20/05/2024) closed

Republic Day 2024 (02/06/2024) 10:00 - 12:00

Summer 2024 (04/06/2024 - 08/09/2024)

  • Mon closed
  • Tue 10:00 - 12:00
  • Wed 16:00 - 18:00
  • Thu 16:00 - 18:00
  • Fri 10:00 - 12:00
  • Sat closed
  • Sun 10:00 - 12:00

Feast of the Assumption 2024 (15/08/2024) 16:00 - 18:00

Autumn 2024 (10/09/2024 - 31/10/2024)

  • Mon closed
  • Tue 10:00 - 12:00
  • Wed 16:00 - 18:00
  • Thu 16:00 - 18:00
  • Fri 10:00 - 12:00
  • Sat closed
  • Sun 10:00 - 12:00

Admission

voluntary donation

More information

For groups, the museum is accessible on request also outside the opening hours.

The Museum of Popular Culture stays open every year from Easter to the end of October, closed on Saturdays and Mondays, season start 2024 on March 28.

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