1st Bolzano Mummy Congress 2009 – Italy
19 – 21st March 2009
Organized in cooperation between
EURAC Institute for mummies and the Iceman Bolzano, South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology Bolzano
Conference introduction
In March 2009, the world’s largest mummy exhibition (previously shown in Mannheim and Schloss Gottorf in Germany) will move to the North Italian city Bolzano, home of the Tyrolean Iceman “Oetzi”. To mark the occasion, the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman is staging the first Bolzano Mummy Congress with the main theme “Mummies and Life Sciences” on March 19-21, 2009. The scientific programme will primarily focus on the application of biomedical sciences in mummy studies.
More about the congress…
Programme:
- plenary lectures
- poster presentations
- visit of the Iceman in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
- visit of the temporary exhibition of mummies in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
- excursion to the finding place of the Iceman and social programme
