Museums, Exhibitions, Podcasts & Videos

Salt, as a continuous thread connecting a region, is explored in the past, present, and future, and made fully accessible via a web app.

Take a journey through time from the Stone Age to the present – alongside unique exhibits from various periods, experience the history of our homeland virtually and visually through the example of Hallstatt.

7.500 Years of Hallstatt

We live in a world of changing values, where craftsmanship increasingly engages with stylistic and cultural questions. Our craft identity is fundamentally linked to our collective memory—where memory fades, identity fades as well.

3D visualizations and models from the prehistoric mine at the NHM external branch in Hallstatt.
 

In addition to freelance work in architectural heritage conservation and building physics, Friedrich Idam has been teaching at Danube University Krems and TU Vienna since 2022.

Further publications by Friedrich Idam can be found in the download section and as open access on ResearchGate.

Podcasts include:

• World Heritage Hallstatt: The Hallstatt-Dachstein/Salzkammergut World Heritage area is a unique cultural landscape with a rich architectural heritage. My name is Friedrich Idam, and in each episode I present a new aspect of our World Heritage. This podcast is supported by ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites.
• Simple Smart Buildings: Simple Smart Buildings represent structures that are built simply and durably. For generations before us, it was normal to construct lasting buildings with simple means. This building approach has proven itself over centuries, and we can learn from it. In different regions, resilient building constructions and types developed from locally available materials, lasting for centuries and still offering high usability today. This podcast explores ways to build simply yet effectively.

Archaeologist Johann Rudorfer has been working for more than 20 years at the Natural History Museum Vienna on the annual archaeological research in Hallstatt. As head of the above-ground measures, he conducts investigations in the prehistoric cemetery and settlement area. Additionally, he coordinates the archaeological accompanying work during construction projects both at the salt mine and within the town of Hallstatt itself.

In his program “Der Archäonaut”, he takes us to the Hallstatt highlands as well as to other archaeological sites in the Salzkammergut and around the world. This provides insights into archaeological research as well as the everyday life of archaeologists in Austria.