News – Museums-Guide

When elevators become works of art

The fact that elevators are not only a means of transport, but can also be unusual design objects with an experiential character, is impressively demonstrated in Hanover.

Week of Inclusion at the Graz Museum

As part of the City of Graz’s Week of Inclusion from July 3rd to 9th, the Graz Museum invites everyone to exciting tours and exhibitions.

Participate and win!

Martin Bruno Walther, journalist and active on social media under #martinbrunorollt, is an enthusiastic reader of the guide and is giving away a few copies on his Facebook page.

Old art retold

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has its own app that allows visitors to take a low-threshold look beneath the surface of works of art and behind the scenes of the museum.

Energy for inclusion

Art is diverse. People are diverse. Work is diverse. VERBUND is diverse.

Foto eines weitgehend in Grau- und Rosatönen gehaltenen Graffitis am Karl-Farkas-Platz im 7. Wiener Gemeinebezirk. Abgebildet sind das Gesicht und die Hände einer jungen Frau, die ein hirschartiges Tier mit einer Beere füttert.

Art for all people (Easy Language)

(This article was translated into easy language by capito.) The Essl Foundation is an organization.

Bettina Leidl (ICOM Österreich Vizepräsidentin und Direktorin des MuseumsQuartier Wien), Doris Rothauer (Herausgeberin und Autorin) und Martin Essl (Gründer der Essl Foundation und Zero Project) bei der Präsentation des Museum Guide inklusiv

The Museums Guide inclusive provides for the first time an overview of accessibility and inclusion in Austria's museums

If you were previously looking for offers regarding accessibility and inclusion in museums, you had to laboriously research on the Internet or call the museum directly.

Ein Mann ertastet ein Tastrelief, das neben dem ausgestellten Originalgemälde hängt.

Good to know (Easy Language)

(This article by Doris Rothauer was translated into easy language by capito.). The World Health Organization.

Foto von einer Gruppe älterer Besucher vor einem Gemälde von Claude Monet im Museum of Modern Art, New York. Das Gemälde wird von Blau- und Grüntönen dominiert. Ein Motiv ist auf dem Foto nicht erkennbar.

This is how inclusive art education works

The art offerings of the Museum of Modern Art, the MoMA in New York, for people with disabilities date back to the 1940s.

Foto von Marin Essl, der die Zeile in Brailleschrift auf der Installation "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar" von Wilfried Gerstel berührt und dabei in die Kamera lächelt.

“Inclusive art should not be an exclusive offer”

Museums Guide: Why do we need inclusive art education? Martin Essl: Because it is a legal right.

Art as a contribution to an inclusive world

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15 percent of the world’s population, or more than one billion people, live with a disability.

Elevators make museums barrier-free and inclusive

The primary goal of elevator operators is safety, whether in the state museums of Tyrol, the Styrian Universalmuseum Joanneum, the Vienna Belvedere or Ambras Castle in Innsbruck.