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World Heritage Museum
Finds from Hallstatt's Iron Age graves and salt mines, which gave their name to a whole period of European prehistory.
- Open
- Every day in summer; shorter hours in winter
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Seestrasse 56, 4830 HallstattDirections
- Getting There
- On the lakeside street near the Lahn.
Why Go
In the 19th century, about 1,000 graves rich in bronze and iron were found above the village, so many that the Early Iron Age in central Europe is called the Hallstatt culture. The museum shows the finds and the history of salt.
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