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Museums, exhibitions and guided tours

You would like to learn and discover something new? No problem!
Exhibitions, museums and guided tours will quench your thirst for knowledge. With the extensive offer there is surely something suitable for young and old.

As an alternative there are more animal adventures, wellness and thermal baths, museums, caves as well as adventure and leisure parks to discover on our rainy weather page.

To the overview for family activities, please click here. 

Regional exhibitions

There is a lot to discover in the Attersee-Attergau region: Follow in the footsteps of the ancient Romans, Celts or pile dwellers and learn more about their lifestyles and history.

Find out more about the former glass production of the Freudenthal glassworks, which was very famous for the production of medical glassware, or find out about the leading fruit of the region "the plum" in the Attersee-Traunsee Nature Park permanent exhibition.

Roemer couple
Romans exibition
Weyregg am Attersee
© Johanna Kiebler
There is a lot to discover in the barrier-free, interactive and multimedia permanent exhibition.
Nature park exhibition
Steinbach am Attersee
© NUPAT_Daniela Stockinger
Children"s and family hike along the Celtic Tree Trail in St. Georgen im Attergau, Salzkammergut.
Celtic.Tree.Path
St. Georgen im Attergau
© TVB Attersee-Attergau, Klaus Costadedoi
Pile dwelling pavilion in Attersee am Attersee, Salzkammergut.
Pile dwelling pavillion
Attersee am Attersee
© Gerald Egger
Adventure pile dwelling - Seewalchen pavilion in Seewalchen am Attersee: The picture shows an information board with information on various topics. In the background you can see a wooden structure to which the board is attached. The sun shines through the structure and casts interesting shadows on the ground.
Pile dwelling
Seewalchen am Attersee
© Gerald Egger
Gläsernes Tal Brillenschlange und Kind
Valley of glass
Weißenkirchen im Attergau
© Evelina Herz mountainkid

Museums in the surroundings

Explore one of the many museums in the area: you can get a glimpse of the future at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, for example. At the Haus der Natur in Salzburg, there's so much to discover in the Saurian Hall, the Aquarium, the Space Hall, the Public Observatory and the Ice Age Show.

In the largest railway and mountain railway museum in Austria, in Ampfelwang, there are over 100 historic railway vehicles to marvel at. The Evolution Museum in Wels tells the story of the Incarnation and ventures a look where this development can still go. The Museum of Nature in Ebensee encourages its visitors to walk through our beautiful nature with open eyes.

Haus der Natur / Natural History Museum
Haus der Natur
Salzburg
© Haus der Natur
Salzkammergut Tierweltmuseum
Animal World Museum
Pinsdorf
© Freunde des Salzkammergut Tierweltmuseum
Ars Electronica Center
Ars Electronica Center
Linz
© Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

Guided tours in the region

Learn more about the life of the bee with the help of display boards on the educational trail of the bee farm in Attersee am Attersee. Or take a closer look at the world of herbs and plants or the life in the forest and water in the nature park Attersee-Traunsee.

Bienenhof Attersee at the Attersee with beautiful views of the lake and the Höllengebirge.
Bee farm
Attersee am Attersee
© Bienenhof
looking into the Aurach Valley Nature Park
Nature park Attersee-Traunsee
Guided tours
© Clemens Schnaitl