GLETSCHER - KLIMA – HOCHALPINE FORSCHUNG

Nature Park Infopoint Hohe Mut

Experience a natural history exhibition in a class of its own. On the 2,670 m high Hohe Mut Alm with its attractive view of the mighty glaciers of the Rotmoos and Gaisberg valleys, you will learn remarkable facts about life in and on the glacier, the climate change that can be felt everywhere and the decades of high Alpine research in Ötztal. The interactive nature park exhibition in 2 languages (de-en) shows selected exhibits on the high Alpine flora and fauna on 135 m², explains the fascinating and colorful variety of the Obergurgl rocks and lets you feel glacier ice up close. The centerpiece of the exhibition with its 10 multimedia experience stations is a 1.5 x 90 cm multimedia table that provides fascinating insights into the most amazing research results. A sensational exhibit is an approximately 3,500-year-old ibex horn, which was found 6 years ago on the nearby Rotmoosjoch and is on public display here for the first time in Austria.

OPEN: Opening hours of the Hohe Mut Alm
daily from 09.00 to 16.00

ADMISSION: free of charge

The exhibition

The Hohe Mut/Obergurgl Infopoint is located in the basement of the Hohe Mut Alm at 2,670 meters and can be described as a real “highlight” within the existing Nature Park Infopoints, and not just because of its altitude.

In line with the basic concept of the nature park structures, this Infopoint presents the local focus topics “Glacier - Climate - High Alpine Research” at 10 different stations using multimedia and in two languages (German/English).

In detail

The 135m2 exhibition room welcomes visitors with a fascinating, expansive view through the open window front facing south to the glaciated valley heads of the Rotmoos and Gaisberg valleys. The colorful diversity of the Obergurgl stones can be found as a cross-sectional theme on the high-quality natural stone walls.

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Well protected under Plexiglas covers, selected instruments for high alpine research (e.g. barber traps, data loggers, wood drills) are presented on a shelf. They provide a methodical insight into the research work.

The researcher's telephone, a special listening station with a fantastic view of the Rotmoos and Gaisberg valleys and the surrounding glaciated peaks tell of the last ice age, which ended almost 10,000 years ago, the work of the researchers and the special landscape elements that have become visible as a result of the ice age.

A real “highlight” of the exhibition is the sensational discovery of a 3,500-year-old ibex horn, which was found by a South Tyrolean vet in 2011 on the Rotmoosjoch in the immediate vicinity of the exhibition. It bears witness to the early presence of ibex in the area.

Pictures (c) Benedikt Steiner - Ötztal Tourismus

Questions about the exhibition:
Thomas Schmarda - Ötztal Nature Park

Further details on the entire Nature Park Structures Project:
https://www.naturpark-oetztal.at/en/visit/nature-park-house-infopoints/