page_title: Messner Mountain Museum
section_title: Ripa
hierarchical_section_title: Messner Mountain Museum / Projects / Ripa
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Schloss Bruneck (Südtirol) English: Bruneck Castle (South Tyrol) Italiano: Castello di Brunico &#160;&#160;This media shows the cultural heritage monument with the number 14358 in South Tyrol.
context_page_description: The Messner Mountain Museum is a museum project created in 2006 by Italian mountaineer and extreme climber Reinhold Messner in South Tyrol in northern Italy. Messner's museum project is designed to educate visitors on "man's encounter with mountains" and deals with the science of mountains and glaciers, the history of mountaineering and rock climbing, the history of mythical mountains, and the history of mountain-dwelling people.
  The museum project consists of six museums based at six different locations: Firmian, Juval, Dolomites, Ortles, Ripa and Corones. MMM Firmian at Sigmundskron Castle near Bozen is the centerpiece of the museum and concentrates on man’s relationship with the mountains. The museum includes displays on the geology of the mountains, the religious significance of mountains in the lives of people, and the history of mountaineering and alpine tourism. MMM Juval at Juval Castle in the Burggrafenamt in Vinschgau is dedicated to the "magic of the mountains", with an emphasis on mystical mountains and their religious significance.
context_section_description: The fifth part of the MMM is MMM Ripa at Bruneck Castle (46.794299°N 11.939497°E) above the town of Bruneck. This is planned to open in Spring 2011 and is intended as an interactive museum, which will offer a forum for various mountain peoples to exchange experiences with the local farming community. Guests from other mountain regions will spend a summer here and talk about their lives. Examples that Messner has given include the Sherpas, South American Indians, Tibetans, Mongols or Hunzas.
caption: Bruneck Castle
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