Capriz Museum

The Capriz Museum in Vandoies offers an interactive experience on the journey from milk to fine cheese, featuring exhibits on local dairy farming and cheese-making processes.

Planning your visit

South Tyrol is German-speaking Italy, alpine and dairy-farming, and Capriz at Vandoies in the Puster valley is a working cheese dairy with a visitor museum attached.

The exhibition traces milk to cheese: the mountain pastures and the breeds grazed on them, the seasonal transhumance, milk chemistry, curdling, pressing, salting and the ripening cellars where different cheeses develop their characters over months. Interactive elements cover the sensory side — the aromas, textures and the vocabulary used to describe them.

The dairy specialises in soft and mould-ripened cheeses alongside traditional alpine hard types, and tastings are integral.

South Tyrolean food culture sits between Austrian and Italian traditions, and cheese is one of the places that mixture is most visible.

The Dolomites are the surrounding attraction.

Bookable options include tickets covering the interactive exhibition and cheese-making insight. Current availability is listed below.