Contributions

Come on everyone, it’s not enough

“Open to the public, barrier-free and inclusive, museums promote diversity and sustainability” – this is a central premise of the new ICOM museum definition.

Street Art Art for All

Zero Project also wants to make art in public spaces accessible to everyone. In 2024, further important landmarks were created.

For a culture of inclusion

The Essl Foundation supports inclusive art projects and, with the Zero Project, is searching worldwide for innovations that enable people with disabilities to create and experience art.

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.

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.

Energy for inclusion

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

Art for all people (Easy Language)

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

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.

Good to know (Easy Language)

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

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.

“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.