Castello Firmian, whose name in German sounds like Sigmundskron - a spacious castle with a network of fortifications, located near the town of Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol. Today, it houses one of the sections of the Mountain Museum Messner (Messner Mountain Museum - MMM), founded by the famous Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner.

The first mention of the Castello Firmian found in the 945 th year. Then he was known as ant farm. In 1027, the year the emperor Conrad II gave the castle to the ownership of the Bishop of Trento and in the 12th century it came into the possession ministeriales - representatives of small chivalry that have since become bear the name Firmian. Approximately in 1473, the year the Tyrolean ruler Sigismund Rich bought the castle, renamed it Sigmundskron and adapting it to withstand firearms. From ancient ant farm has survived only a few fragments, mostly located at the highest points of the area.

Because of financial difficulties, Sigismund was forced to lay the castle, leaving the structure gradually began to decline. At the end of the 18th century it belonged to the Counts Volkenshtein, and after them - until 1994. - graphs Toggenburg. It was the last owners of the Castello Firmian in 1976 partially restored the ruined castle and opened a restaurant in it. And in 1996, the castle became the property of the province of Bolzano.

In the spring of 2003, after many confrontations Reinhold Messner was the lock in long-term lease to accommodate the exhibition of the Mining Museum. During the next restoration work in 2006, the territory of the Castello Firmian was discovered the tomb of the Neolithic to the female skeleton, which, according to preliminary estimates, 6 to 7 thousand years.