Nockalmhof is just three kilometres from Innerkrems, right on Nockalm Road. It is not just a great starting point for hikes, it is also home to the Biosphere Reserve Center. It is here that you can visit the fossil exhibition ‘Petrified Worlds’, the only one of its kind in Austria. In a separate information area you learn all the interesting details about Nockberge Biosphere Reserve. The interactive children’s exhibition, based on the theme ‘Bats’, whisks little guests into the realm of these fluttering creatures. A multimedia and 3D cinema, extensive gastronomic offers, a shop and play area await visitors. Several display boards at the front of the building provide information about the history of iron mining in Innerkrems and the surrounding area.      

Sensational finds: 240 million year old dinosaurs are now on display in the newly designed fossil exhibition "Petrified Worlds" at the Nockalmhof Biosphere Park Centre! The sensational discoveries provide an insight into a world long before our time - or more precisely: into a Carinthia long before our time! 

Things get wild in the popular Pfandlhütte! The experience-filled exhibition ‘Wild Nocky Mountains’ brings visitors closer to the wild inhabitants of the Nockberge, which includes wolves, chamois, red deer and others. Explorers of all ages encounter creatures at stimulating interactive stations, and this really gets them in the mood for heading out on their own explorations in the natural surroundings!

The unique Alpine meadow farming museum in the Zechneralm impressively demonstrates how arduous life in the mountains used to be for people, yet also how beautiful it was in its simplicity. Agricultural produce from the Nockalm area is available to purchase – and sample too - in the farmers’ market. At the ‘Marmot Burrow’ adventure play area right next to the Alpine meadow farming museum, kids get to rush about just like sweet marmots.

The ‘Trees as survivalists’ exhibition in the Grundalm provides a prominent stage for larch, spruce and Swiss pine – the three types of tree that chiefly grow in the Nockberge Biosphere Reserve! In an interactive, creative and variety-packed manner the exhibition reveals the properties and special features of these trees and their uses. Tip: Before or after you pay a visit to the exhibition, you definitely ought to enjoy a stroll through ‘Silva Magica’, the unique magic forest, where you get to find out more about trees, magical nature spirits and much more.