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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 aims to make public art accessible to everyone. In 2024, additional 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 offers a low-threshold look beneath the surface of works of art and behind the scenes of the museum with its own app.

When elevators become works of art

The fact that elevators are not just a means of transportation, 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 on accessibility and inclusion in museums, you had to do laborious research on the web or call the museum directly.

Good to know (Easy Language)

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

This is how inclusive art education works

The art offerings for people with disabilities at the Museum of Modern Art, the MoMA in New York, 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's 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.