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Matterhorn Museum

Matterhorn Museum – Zermatlantis

The Matterhorn Museum – Zermatlantis is a museum in the village of Zermatt on the village's history and the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.

Why go

The Matterhorn Museum – Zermatlantis is a museum in the village of Zermatt about the history of the village and the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Zermatt Tourism's museum page says its underground world shows Zermatt's original houses and how the inhabitants lived in the 19th century, has a multimedia room, and displays original objects from the first ascent of 1865, including the broken rope; four of the seven climbers lost their lives. It also shows 'Theo', a 16th-century mercenary who failed to cross the Theodul Pass. Zermatt Tourism's Gorner Glacier trail page adds that the museum displays mountain reliefs showing the glaciers around Zermatt. Tickets can be booked on Zermatt Tourism's site; the museum's hours and prices are not given here.

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Zermatt

Zermatt is a village and municipality in the Visp district of the canton of Valais, at the foot of the Matterhorn. XTOUR maps the Matterhorn Museum in the village; the Gornergrat, the Klein Matterhorn, the Gorner Glacier and the Gorner gorge lie in the wider municipality outside the village, and the Matterhorn's summit is on the Swiss–Italian border, so XTOUR records them as places reached from Zermatt.

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