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The collection
The museum holds finds from the salt mines and the Iron Age cemeteries
It keeps discoveries from the local salt mines and from the cemeteries near them, which made Hallstatt the type site for the Hallstatt culture. Since 2002 it has occupied the former Hallstatt parsonage.
Ramsauer
Johann Georg Ramsauer began excavating the cemeteries in 1846
Ramsauer was the Bergmeister, or official, of the Habsburg Salt Mines. He began a series of meticulous excavations on the cemeteries around the mines between 1846 and 1867, helped by a mining assistant, Isodor Engl.
The Protokoll
Ramsauer's records of the burials were well ahead of their time
His records, known as the Protokoll, were well in advance of contemporary archaeological recording. About 980 burials are recorded. Engl made most of the watercolour drawings. A request to publish them in 1859 was declined.
19,497grave goods recorded in the Protokoll
Sold abroad
A collection dug up in 1907 ended up at the Peabody Museum
In 1907 Marie, Duchess of Mecklenburg, began new excavations and dug 40 graves. After the 1st World War her collection was confiscated by the Serbian Government. In 1934 the Hallstatt finds were bought by the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The staircase
A wooden staircase from the mine was dated to the Bronze Age
In 2013 a wooden staircase from the Christian von Tuschwerk was moved to a show area within the mine. Dendrochronology dated it to 1344 to 1343 BCE, in the Bronze Age.
Day 2, afternoon
It comes after Hallstatt Salt Mine.
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