Museum visits · Plan de Corones · Italy
The two museums on Plan de Corones
Lumen, on mountain photography, and Zaha Hadid's MMM Corones, at 2275 metres, four hundred metres apart
On the summit of Plan de Corones, at 2275 metres, there are two museums four hundred metres apart, and you visit them in the same morning. Lumen occupies the old top station and tells the story of mountain photography: the first images from 1849 lined up year by year, bellows cameras in their cases, the wall of postcards sent from mountain huts, the large prints of today's photographers. MMM Corones stands on the other side of the plateau, set into the rock inside Zaha Hadid's concrete, and is the last of Reinhold Messner's six museums: inside there are ropes, pitons, crampons and the words of those who went up. From both, the windows look out over the Val Pusteria, and the view is part of the exhibition.
Getting there
- You do not drive the motorhome up: you leave it in Brunico and take the cable car. The Kronplatz 2000 leaves from Riscone and arrives at the top station, which is to say inside Lumen
- MMM Corones is on the other side of the summit: you cross the plateau on foot, on the level, over packed snow
- In winter that stretch is a ski piste: you walk to one side, and you need shoes that hold on packed ice
- Anyone skiing reaches both with their skis on and leaves them outside
Practical information
Duration two or three hours for the two museums, plus the cable car and the crossing of the summit
Price combined Lumen and MMM Corones ticket 22 euros, 10 euros for ages 9 to 14, 44 euros for a family
When to go December to April with the winter lifts, May to November in summer
Suitable for everyone; Lumen works well with children too, MMM Corones asks for more silence and more attention. Lumen is wheelchair accessible and has adapted toilets on the first floor
Booking not needed, the ticket can also be bought online
Contacts
Where it is
Plan de Corones · Trentino-Alto Adige
You set off from
Notes
- MMM Corones: open 10:00-16:00, last admission 15:30, no closing day; from 29 November 2025 to 19 April 2026 and from 16 May to 8 November 2026
- Lumen: its hours follow those of the lifts, so the summit and the museum open and close together; out of season you cannot get up there
- Combined Lumen and MMM Corones ticket: 22 euros for adults, 10 euros for children aged 9 to 14, 44 euros for the family ticket with two adults and children under 14
- MMM Corones on its own costs 14 euros, 6 for ages 6 to 18, 12 for students up to 28, over 65s and people with disabilities, 32 euros for a family and 18 with a single adult
- The price for Lumen on its own is to be checked on the official site
- The cable car is not included in either ticket
- The MMM Tour-Ticket is cumulative and covers one admission each to Firmian, Juval, Ortles, Ripa and Corones, for a year from issue. The sixth, MMM Dolomites, is closed today
- At Lumen the historic cameras are on loan from the Tirol Archiv Photographie, and the route climbs from the first mountain daguerreotypes up to digital, with the 1999 case and the phone case
- At MMM Corones the piece that stays with you is the pair of nailed boots from 1937, back from the Nanga Parbat expedition that ended under an avalanche
- On the summit there is also the Concordia 2000 Peace Bell, which rings every day at noon
- At 2275 metres it is cold even in the sun: inside the museums it is warm, between the two it is not
- Reinhold Messner's other museum nearby is the MMM Ripa, down in Brunico castle: they are two different visits, and they fit into the same trip
