Salt Museum Traunstein: Exhibition Brine Pipeline – the 1st Pipeline in the World
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Salt history you can touch: The permanent exhibition on the first pipeline in the world
On Saturday, December 27, 2025, the Salt Museum in the ground floor of Ferdinandstock will open its vaulted rooms and invites you from 10 am to 12 pm for a focused reflection on the salt history of Traunstein. The exhibition tells how the brine pipeline – as the first pipeline in the world – connected Bad Reichenhall with Traunstein and creates a unique exhibition atmosphere between technology, craftsmanship, and landscape.
Art experience of technology history: Pulley systems, pumps, spatial effects
In the historic masonry, the aesthetic experience is condensed: Light falls on hand-drilled pulleys, which formed the interregional infrastructure of the 17th century as wooden pipes. Models, original exhibits, and vivid presentations make the materiality of the brine pipeline tangible – from the Reiffenstuel pumping technology to the topography of the pipeline route.
Curated context: From the early Baroque era to industrial culture
The exhibition locates the brine pipeline (1617–1619) artistically and technologically between early Baroque engineering art and later industrial culture. Curatorial texts explain the function and form of the installation in the landscape, the logic of the seven hydropower pumping stations, and the role of forest wealth as a resource – factual, precise, understandable.
Film's communicative role and museum pedagogy
An animated documentary film from a P-seminar at the Chiemgau Gymnasium opens up new perspectives on color, shape, and motion of the pipeline. The media setting deepens cultural education: Connections become visible, historical processes understandable, and the reflection on the work remains accessible at all times.
Barrier-free access and clear orientation
Access to the permanent exhibition is possible barrier-free. The balanced pathway, short labels, and easily readable exhibition texts support a calm, reflective flow of visitors – ideal for individual visitors, families, and education partners.
Conclusion
Those who want to experience technology history as a sensual art experience will find here a concentrated, evidence-based exhibition: vividly staged, historically grounded, didactically clear. Take advantage of the time window from 10 am to 12 pm and experience how wood, water, and engineering spirit give rise to a chapter of European cultural history.
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