The Balkan Museum Access Group (BMAG) is a permanent working group of 400 museums and museum staff from 13 Western Balkan countries that has been working to break down barriers in museums since 2011.
The annual Weeks of Inclusion will take place again in Graz until July 6, 2025.
The Accessibility Act (BaFG) will come into force in Austria on 28 June 2025.
Complex texts in museums can become a barrier – especially for people with learning difficulties.
Since 2017, capito Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, together with the State Museum Schwerin (Germany), has been training people with disabilities to become art educators.
With the aim of being inclusive, local museums gather and implement a great deal of experience and expertise to break down barriers and make art and culture accessible to everyone.
From May 19 to 24, the festival organized by the Association for Integrative Cultural Work took place in Linz, highlighting the diversity of our society and the cultural participation of people with disabilities for the seventh time.
Each year, the Zero Project recognizes outstanding solutions that reduce barriers for people with disabilities – with an eye on innovation, impact, and scalability. In 2026, there will be a thematic focus on accessibility, including:
The mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien is launching a new educational program in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).
The Beethovenhaus Baden, a new addition to the museums in the Museumsguide inclusive, launched an inclusion project on the topic of deafness in April, which will continue in the summer.
Under the motto MUSEUMS AND THE FUTURE, Doris Rothauer curated and organized a four-day museum tour together with the Foreign Trade Office of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in New York.
Founded in 1929 with the educational mission of making contemporary art accessible to people of all ages and abilities, MoMA is known for its experimental approach to museum education.