Permanent Exhibitions at TIROL PANORAMA with Kaiserjägermuseum

The Giant Panorama

The Innsbruck giant panorama of 1896 is the heart of the house. Munich painter Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939) completed it in just three months under the supervision of history painter Franz von Defregger (1835-1921). Beforehand he had carried out meticulous research. He studied the events of the war around 1809 closely, gained a sense of the surroundings of the Bergisel on bicycle tours, and borrowed authentic costumes as models.

On more than a thousand square metres of canvas, the battles of the third Battle of Bergisel on 13 August 1809 condense into an almost salvation-historical event. The panorama contains all the ingredients that make up the Tyrol myth: landscape and people, the untamed urge for freedom and the close bond “upwards”.

SCHAUPLATZ TIROL

“Tirol pur” is what visitors find in the Schauplatz Tirol. The underground exhibition space looks like a richly filled casket. Four areas are presented in detail: religion, people, politics and nature.

Concrete shapes set into the floor and suspended from steel cables illustrate the fractured political history. Anti-centralism and traditionalism are the driving forces behind the uprising of 1809. Afterwards, freedom becomes myth: Tyrol, the history of an assertion.

“The Holy Land” appears in mighty display cases with exhibits that seem to float in front of heavy, gleaming baroque curtains. Politics and religion are closely intertwined in Tyrol. Christianity plays a major role.

“About the Tyroleans” is told in angular columns that stand in the room like mighty trees. Behind large and small doors, visitors can discover the character traits of six exemplary Tyroleans. The external image becomes the self-image and is marketed as such for tourism.

In Tyrol, the mountains are unavoidable and part of the identity. The state lies almost entirely in the Alps, and only about twelve percent is permanent settlement area. A more than forty-metre-long, imposing display case presents a wealth of objects from the mountain world of Tyrol, from the run-over beaver to holy waters and winter magic.

Exhibition KAISERSCHÜTZEN

Selected objects from the holdings of the Tiroler Kaiserschützenmuseum are presented on the first basement level. The exhibition area reviews the years-long struggles of the Tyrolean state representation over the old rights of the Landesschützen, and tells of their exhausting deployments up to the end of the First World War.

Equipment, documents, mementos and a media area trace the eventful history of the Kaiserschützen up to the preservation of their traditions by the Kaiserschützenbund. The honorary title “Kaiserschützen” goes back to Emperor Karl I, who first bestowed it on the Landesschützen on 16 January 1917.

Collection Tiroler Kaiserschützen