Museum im Zeughaus / Tiroler Landesmuseen

About this audio guide

This guide to the Museum im Zeughaus in Innsbruck follows a struggling Tyrolean mining town in the fifteen fifties and the unusual object its officials commissioned to save it: an illustrated book made by a mine official and a painter, meant to remind faraway princes why Tyrolean silver still mattered. It follows that book into the same halls Emperor Maximilian the First built to store cannon and small arms, and touches on the copper and silver trade that helped pay for this building.