Heinrich Harrer Museum
 Heinrich Harrer Museum in Hüttenberg (former elementary school) |
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Hüttenberg , Bahnhofstrasse 12 
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Biographical Museum ( Heinrich Harrer ), Religion and Ethnology Museum ( Buddhism / Tibet ); listed school building
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| opening | 1983 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 20,000 |
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Hüttenberg community ( Hüttenberg museums)
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The Heinrich Harrer Museum is a museum in Hüttenberg in Carinthia that focuses on Heinrich Harrer's research trips . It houses a total of around 4000 exhibits in several departments on an area of 1000 m² (as of 2008).
Construction and history
The house itself is a typical school in the style of Austrian historicism. It has a simple two- wing structure with a central transverse tract, which forms a central risalit with a gable to the façade . It is a listed building . From 1874 to 1968 it was the local elementary school .
The Heinrich Harrer Museum was founded in 1983. It has up to 20,000 visitors annually.
exhibition
The museum shows exhibits from Harrer's life as a mountaineer and athlete ( skiing , golf ) and from his stays and research trips in Asia ( Tibet , Andaman , Borneo ), South America ( Suriname , Rio Xingu ) and Africa . Various multimedia presentations are shown and the picture archive contains more than 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings by Harrer's own hand and numerous national and international awards.
The Tibet Collection occupies a large space. Harrer had come to Lhasa in 1946 and became an advisor and teacher to the young Tendzin Gyatsho , the XIV Dalai Lama , with whom he remained lifelong friends. Harrer later wrote the book “ Seven Years in Tibet ” about his time in Tibet . In 1992, Tendzin Gyatsho himself inaugurated the Buddhist prayer room, which is located in the museum building. One photo shows him on the grand armchair in the throne room, on which only he as the Dalai Lama can sit. In addition, a large sand mandala can be seen, which was not destroyed after production, as is usually the case.
The museum also has an exhibition on the oppression of Tibetans since the 1959 Tibet Uprising , human rights violations , destruction of Tibetan culture and monasteries, the relics of Tibetan Buddhism, Bon and the mass immigration of Han Chinese .
The Hüttenberger Lingkor is built into the rock face opposite the Heinrich Harrer Museum , a pilgrimage path in the tradition of Buddhism in Tibet , which largely consists of steel stairs and leads uphill across the valley floor.
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lingkor should be accessible again in September. In: Kleine Zeitung online, August 22, 2015.