Technisches Museum Wien

Physical accessibility

Entrance: Barrier-free access below street level via wide concrete ramps, automatic wheelchair-accessible glass revolving door, directions for visually impaired people on the website, two barrier-free parking spaces for cars in front of the main entrance

In the building: all exhibition levels, except the historic mine, barrier-free toilets on every floor except E1, wheelchair-accessible lift (internal dimensions 140 x 100 cm, door width: 90 cm), two electric stair lifts

In exhibitions: Audio stations without induction loops, seating, increased noise due to interactive elements, exhibition texts in German and English

Accessible information and content

In easy/simple language: Puzzle Rally Generator with questions and tasks across all exhibitions in simple German

To listen: The TMW ToGo app offers tours with audio texts; listen to them on your smartphone or on TMW rental tablets (info desk).

In sign language: No

In Braille and tactile: no

Multimedia: Media stations, TMW ToGo app

Inclusive art and cultural education

Target group-specific tours:
• Guided tours in simple language with interactive elements and objects to touch
• Tactile tours for blind and visually impaired people with the possibility of touching selected historical objects with cotton gloves
• Dementia-sensitive services on site and digitally

Target group-specific workshops: on request at +43-1-89998-3001 or by email to wissensvermittlung@tmw.at

Sensory mediation aids: Tactile models, olfactory and auditory stations as well as hands-on objects