The
MMM Ortles is one of the four offshoots from the MMM Mountain Museum
of Firmian: At Solda in Ortles, at the start of the village, there is an
underground site with an area of 300 square metres housing an exhibition
on the subject of Ice and Ortles. Using descriptions, historical records
and examples of graphic arts, Reinhold Messner introduces such topics as
glaciers, the ice, the South Pole, the North Pole, abominable snowmen
and above all the great mountains of ice. Symbolically, the Ortler is at
the heart of this exhibition. The location – the farm with its yaks, the
Ortler as the highest peak in southern Tyrol directly above and the ice
of the glacier almost within touching distance – is ideal.