Ninety seconds on Hallstatt Prehistoric Cemetery
In summer the Natural History Museum digs here in the open, which makes this the rare archaeological site where the excavation is the thing on show. The path across the graves costs nothing once the funicular is paid for.
The high valley sits three minutes above the village by funicular, and the graves lie under the pasture and the path rather than behind a fence. What there is to look at is the ground itself, the replica huts, a demonstration grave laid out the way the excavators found one, and in summer the dig, which the Natural History Museum works on weekdays at the top of the valley beside the salt workings. The theme path is signed and its audio guide is an app rather than a hire desk. The tower at the funicular station holds the restaurant and the viewpoint, and the entrance to the salt tunnels is a quarter of an hour further along the same path.
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