Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck follows Peter Anich, an eighteenth-century Tyrolean farmer with no formal schooling who taught himself astronomy and surveying on his Sundays off. It traces how a wooden globe he built by hand led the Tyrolean court to hand him an almost impossible commission: measuring and mapping the entire province on foot. You will hear about his teacher, the Jesuit scholar Ignaz Weinhart, and the young student who later carried his work forward. Look for the two globes Anich built still standing in the museum today.