The museum moves: the year of the Euregio museums has begun

It officially began on 27 May with an opening ceremony held at the Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck: 2021 is the year of the museums of the Euregio Tyrol - South Tyrol - Trentino region. More than 70 events are planned and 60 museums are participating in the project.

"The museum moves" is the slogan of the year of museums. In German it is translated as Museum bewegt, a translation that actually offers a double reading, because the verb bewegen means to move, but also to move. The common thread linking all the events in the programme is "mobility", which is expressed in such a wide and rich way that only by browsing through the programme will you realise the many facets of this theme.

The Euregio Tirolo-Alto Adige-Trentino is a joint cross-border cooperation project consisting of the Austrian Tyrol and the two Italian autonomous provinces of Trentino and South Tyrol. It corresponds with good approximation to the territory of the historical region of the Habsburg Tyrol from 1815 to 1918. A region with three languages - German, Italian and Ladin - which has been unified several times over the centuries and divided by historical events.
What has never changed is its role: because of its geographical position on the edge of the Alps, the Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino has always been and continues to be an area of transit and travel, a link between North and South.
It is also particularly interesting that the theme of the Year of Museums is mobility, at a time when a pandemic has drastically affected the ability to move, which for all of us, until just over a year ago, was a matter of course.

The programme at the various exhibition venues runs in shifts until the end of 2021 and offers a rich overview of the topic of mobility. The exhibitions cover a wide range of time periods, from Ötzi to the intensive traffic in the Alps from Roman times to the present day, to proposals for building a sustainable future. The theme of mobility is also explored from the angles of the most diverse disciplines: from botany to archaeology, from history to sociology, from art to religion, from linguistics to geopolitics.
In order to move from exhibition to exhibition and discover the Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino from the comfort of a window seat, there is also the Euregio2 Plus day ticket: for 39 euros two adults and three children can 'move' around the region and get a 50% discount on the price of admission to museums.

There are 14 exhibitions on display in the Tyrol, spread across the region from Landeck to Rattenberg; four of them are in the city of Innsbruck. At theBotanical Institute of the University of Innsbruck, the focus is on biodiversity and the journey of plants along the Brenner railway. At the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum the exhibition 'At work!' tells the story of Trentino's immigration in the nineteenth century (about which I wrote in this post). The Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck devotes its attention to the bicycle with the exhibition 'Fahr Rad! Conquering the city'. And finally the Museum in Zeughaus exhibits mobility in Tyrol under the title 'Walking - Driving - Travelling'.

So, have a good trip!

The detailed programme of events for the Year of Euregio Museums can be found here:
2021.euregio.info
Information about Euregio2PlusTicket can be found at:
www.europaregion.info/it/euregio-ticket.asp