Archaeological Society Innsbruck
The Archaeological Society Innsbruck has about 175 members, the largest in western Austria -based association, in which scientists and archeology interested amateurs together.
history
Public relations issues for archeology led to the foundation of the association on June 22, 1979. The great interest that lectures of this kind, organized by the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck , had already attracted, motivated Bernhard Neutsch , then Professor of Classical Archeology and Johannes B. Trentini (1909-2005), to found the Innsbruck Archaeological Society and thus add a new gathering point to Innsbruck's cultural life. In 1993, Johannes B. Trentini resigned from his position to Günther Schlenck (1932–2002) for reasons of age. This was followed in 2002 by Andreas Rauch as President. Over the past few decades, the Innsbruck Archaeological Society has developed into a center for everyone who wants to deepen their knowledge of archeology and ancient art and cultural history.
tasks and goals
The purpose is to promote interest in archeology and the dissemination of archaeological knowledge in a generally understandable form. In the often difficult area of public-university-science, information barriers are to be broken down and university research to be made accessible to a broad, interested public.
The most important activity is therefore to invite experts from all over the world to Innsbruck who will report on new discoveries and current research results in archeology in public lectures. Since it was founded, almost 200 speakers from 17 countries have been welcomed and given a total of 250 lectures.
In addition to lecturing, annual excursions, short excursions and exhibition trips to excavation sites and archaeologically interesting sites are also carried out under expert guidance.
With its meanwhile 175 (as of 2005) members, including interested lay people, students and university members, the Innsbruck Archaeological Society is the largest of its kind in western Austria, which also cooperates closely with the Institute for Archeology at the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck . The proven collaboration brings a series of lectures every year, in which research results that have not yet been published are presented in many cases. This first hand information is one of the reasons for the success of this series of events.
literature
A report on the association's work has appeared every year since it was founded in 1979 in the cultural reports from Tyrol.