All programme items

The Shaped World

Archaeology of the ArchaeoRegion Southwest Styria

Stories of the Past

Digital Journey into Lost Landscapes

Immerse yourself with us virtually in the past of the Danube region and explore Iron Age settlements or medieval fortresses.

The Romans on Schöckl Mountain

Since 2015 the Institute for Archaeology at Graz University has been researching the Roman excavation site on Schöckl Mountain in Styria.

Earth – Water – Fire

Sources of Life and Stores of Knowledge

Opening: 09.05.2019, 7pm

Razor sharp

6000 years chert mining in Rein near Graz

The exhibition presents the Neolithic-Age hornstone mine at Rein, the earliest mine in Styria, on the basis of archaeological and geoscientific research.

Animal Sacrifice

Killing in Cult and Religion

The remains of around 1,500 sacrificial animals from the sanctuary at Frauenberg bei Leibnitz dating from the Latène Period form the starting point for an inter-disciplinary exploration of the psychology of ritual slaughter.

Bone Code

Bodies Tell the Story of War

The exhibition marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, 2014, by displaying the vestiges of violence on skeletons.

The Beginning of Time

Palaeological Finds from Repolust Cave

BICENTENARY PROGRAMME Repolust Cave north of Graz was the source of some of the most important Palaeolithic cave finds in the eastern Alpine region. 1,800 quartz and hornstone tools, around 60 worked bone artefacts and several thousand mammal bones will be on display for the first time in this exhibition at the interface between archaeology and palaeontology.