Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The most important things at a glance
- Audio guides, apps, multimedia, listening stations
- Assistance dogs allowed
- Reduced admission
- for people with dementia
- for people with hearing impairments / in ÖGS
- for people with visual impairments
- in easy or simple language
- Culture Pass: Hunger for art and culture
- Special tours & offers
- Tactile orientation aids
- Rollator/wheelchair rental
information
- Burgring 5
- 1010 Vienna
- Vienna
- Open address in Google Maps
- Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
- Thu 10:00-21:00
- Open daily from June to August
- € 18 for people with a disability card
- free for assistant
Contact
Description
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is one of the most important museums in the world. Its collections comprise nearly 4 million works of art spanning over 5,000 years. Highlights include objects from ancient Egypt, the treasures of the Kunstkammer (cabinet of art), and paintings by Renaissance and Baroque masters such as Pieter Bruegel and Caravaggio.
Hearonymus Audio GuidePhysical accessibility
Entrance: barrier-free side entrance Burgring 5
In the building: all exhibition rooms, cloakroom, 2 lifts, 5 toilets, café, shop
In exhibitions: Accessible floor, wheelchair space, seating, orientation aids, maps in Braille on site, maps available as audio files for download on the website
Accessible information and content
In easy/simple language: Themed tours every 3rd Friday of the month at 3:00 PM
To listen: Audio guide
In sign language: Videos in sign language (ÖGS and IS) about special exhibitions and selected works of art on YouTube and in the online database
In Braille and tactile: Tactile orientation maps, publication for borrowing or purchase: “Seeing things differently together” (texts in Braille optical, haptic and auditory elements)
Multimedia: interactive multimedia guide, app KHM Stories
Miscellaneous: Big Letter Books with object descriptions in large print for special exhibitions
Inclusive art and cultural education
Target group-specific tours:
Barrier-free day:
• Tactile tour every 1st Friday of the month
• Guided tour with translation into sign language every second Friday of the month
• Guided tour in simple language every 3rd Friday of the month
• Guided tour for people with dementia or forgetfulness and companions every 4th Friday of the month
Start: 3:00 PM, duration approx. 60 minutes, admission and guided tour free, summer break in July and August
Target group-specific workshops: Workshops for people with dementia or forgetfulness can be booked upon request; inclusive mediation program for young people with and without learning difficulties
Sensory mediation aids: are used in guided tours
Seal of quality
- Hunger for art and culture
- Austrian Museum Quality Seal
