Museum of the City of Vils
The Museum of the City of Vils documents the history of the city of Vils in Tyrol .
history
The museum association of the city of Vils - founded in 1987 by Reinhold Schrettl and colleagues - set up a room as a museum for the first time in 1993 in the “Schlössle”. The "Schlössle" at the southern end of the Stadtgasse was connected to the upper gate of the city wall and served as an office building. The museum association of the city of Vils has been called VilsArt cultural association since 2014.
Collections
The museum shows, among other things:
- Violins from the violin-making families Rief and Petz and by the master of viola d'amore Johann Ulrich Eberle
- Four paintings by the baroque painter Balthasar Riepp, who died in Vils in 1764
- A scientifically processed geology room with information boards and paleontological finds from Vils and the surrounding area
Objects and documents from the historic Vils - including the coat of arms of Balthasar Sprenger or Springer - round off the collection.
Violins in the museum
Geology room in the museum
Further paintings by Balthasar Riepp and an extensive nativity scene exhibition by the artist Norbert Roth, who died on July 17, 2014, can be seen in the Riepphaus, next to the church.
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '53.59 " N , 10 ° 37' 46.48" E